President Richard Nixon
- President Nixon made the unusual move of going on a week long trip to Europe only five weeks after his inauguration. His most famous voyage was to the People's Republic of China, the first by an incumbent President of the United States; he took groundbreaking trips to Eastern Europe as well.
- On July 25, 1969, President Nixon announced his Nixon Doctrine on the island of Guam, in which he said henceforth expected its allies to take care of their own military defense. The next day he proceeded on his round the world tour which included 5 state visits, an unannounced stop in Vietnam, and stops in Romania, and the United Kingdom.
- In 1972 President Nixon received delivery of the second custom outfitted jet to be used as Air Force One, VC-137C SAM 27000.
| # | Start | End | Country | Cities | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23-Feb-1969 | 24-Feb-1969 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended 23d meeting of North Atlantic Council; met with King Baudouin I. |
| 2 | 24-Feb-1969 | 26-Feb-1969 | United Kingdom | London | Informal visit; held conversations with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Received by Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 3 | 26-Feb-1969 | 27-Feb-1969 | Germany | Cologne, Bonn | Addressed the Bundestag. |
| 4 | 27-Feb-1969 | 27-Feb-1969 | Germany | West Berlin | Delivered several public addresses. |
| 5 | 27-Feb-1969 | 28-Feb-1969 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giuseppe Saragat, Prime Minister Mariano Rumor, and other officials. |
| 6 | 28-Feb-1969 | 2-Mar-1969 | France | Paris | Met with President Charles de Gaulle. |
| 7 | 2-Mar-1969 | 2-Mar-1969 | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
| 8 | 26-Jul-1969 | 27-Jul-1969 | Philippines | Manila | State visit; met with President Ferdinand Marcos. |
| 9 | 27-Jul-1969 | 28-Jul-1969 | Indonesia | Jakarta | State visit; met with President Suharto. |
| 10 | 28-Jul-1969 | 30-Jul-1969 | Thailand | Bangok | State visit; met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej. |
| 11 | 30-Jul-1969 | 30-Jul-1969 | Vietnam | Saigon, Di An | Met with President Nguyen Van Thieu and visited U.S. military personnel. |
| 12 | 31-Jul-1969 | 1-Aug-1969 | India | New Delhi | State visit; met with Acting President Mohammad Hidayatullah. |
| 13 | 1-Aug-1969 | 2-Aug-1969 | Pakistan | Lahore | State visit; met with President Yahya Khan. |
| 14 | 2-Aug-1969 | 3-Aug-1969 | Romania | Bucharest | Official visit; met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu. |
| 15 | 3-Aug-1969 | 3-Aug-1969 | United Kingdom | Mildenhall Air Force Base | Informal meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. |
| 16 | 8-Sep-1969 | 8-Sep-1969 | Mexico | Ciudad Acuna | Dedicated Amistad Dam. |
| 17 | 20-Aug-1970 | 21-Aug-1970 | Mexico | Puerto Vallarta | Official visit; met with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. |
| 18 | 27-Sep-1970 | 30-Sep-1970 | Italy | Rome, Naples | Official visit; met with President Giuseppe Saragat; visited NATO Southern Command. |
| 19 | 28-Sep-1970 | 28-Sep-1970 | Vatican City | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
| 20 | 30-Sep-1970 | 2-Oct-1970 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade, Zagreb | State visit; met with President Josip Broz Tito. |
| 21 | 2-Oct-1970 | 3-Oct-1970 | Spain | Madrid | State visit; met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. |
| 22 | 3-Oct-1970 | 3-Oct-1970 | United Kingdom | Chequers | Met informally with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Edward Heath. |
| 23 | 3-Oct-1970 | 5-Oct-1970 | Ireland | Limerick, Timahoe, Dublin | State visit; met with Taoiseach Jack Lynch. |
| 24 | 12-Nov-1970 | 12-Nov-1970 | France | Paris | Attended memorial services for former President Charles de Gaulle. |
| 25 | 13-Dec-1971 | 14-Dec-1971 | Portugal | Terceira Island | Discussed international monetary problems with French President Georges Pompidou and Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano. |
| 26 | 20-Dec-1971 | 21-Dec-1971 | United Kingdom | Bermuda | Met with British Prime Minister Edward Heath. |
| 27 | 21-Feb-1972 | 28-Feb-1972 | People's Republic of China | Shanghai, Peking, Hangchow | State visit; met with Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. |
| 28 | 13-Apr-1972 | 15-Apr-1972 | Canada | Ottawa | State visit; met with Governor General Roland Michener and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and made joint address to parliament. |
| 29 | 20-May-1972 | 22-May-1972 | Austria | Salzburg | Informal visit; met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. |
| 30 | 22-May-1972 | 30-May-1972 | U.S.S.R. | Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev | State visit; met with Premier Alexei Kosygin and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Signed SALT I and ABM Treaties. |
| 31 | 30-May-1972 | 31-May-1972 | Iran | Tehran | Official visit; met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. |
| 32 | 31-May-1972 | 1-Jun-1972 | Poland | Warsaw | Official visit; met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. |
| 33 | 31-May-1973 | 1-Jun-1973 | Iceland | Reykjavik | Met with President Kristján Eldjárn and Prime Minister Ólafur Jóhannesson, and French President Georges Pompidou. |
| 34 | 5-Apr-1974 | 7-Apr-1974 | France | Paris | Attended memorial services for former President Georges Pompidou. Met afterward with interim President Alain Poher, Italian President Giovanni Leone, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Danish Prime Minister Poul Hartling, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. |
| 35 | 10-Jun-1974 | 12-Jun-1974 | Austria | Salzburg | Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. |
| 36 | 12-Jun-1974 | 14-Jun-1974 | Egypt | Cairo, Alexandria | Met with President Anwar Sadat. |
| 37 | 14-Jun-1974 | 15-Jun-1974 | Saudi Arabia | Jedda | Met with King Faisal. |
| 38 | 15-Jun-1974 | 16-Jun-1974 | Syria | Damascus | Met with President Hafez al-Assad. |
| 39 | 16-Jun-1974 | 17-Jun-1974 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem | Met with President Ephraim Katzir and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. |
| 40 | 17-Jun-1974 | 18-Jun-1974 | Jordan | Amman | State visit; met with King Hussein. |
| 41 | 18-Jun-1974 | 19-Jun-1974 | Portugal | Lajes Field (The Azores) | Met with President António de Spínola. |
| 42 | 25-Jun-1974 | 26-Jun-1974 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended North Atlantic Council meeting, and met separately with King Baudouin I and Queen Fabiola, Prime Minister Leo Tindemans; and with German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and Italian Prime Minister Mariano Rumor. |
| 43 | 27-Jun-1974 | 3-Jul-1974 | U.S.S.R. | Moscow, Minsk, Oreanda | Official visit; met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, President Nikolai Podgorny, and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Signing of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT). |
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