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Presidential international travel first occurred during the 20th century. The first six presidents to travel went by ship. President Woodrow Wilson spent almost seven months in Europe in the Aftermath of World War I. The first four presidential trips by airplane were the four World War II conferences: Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta (Franklin D. Roosevelt attended), and Potsdam (Harry S. Truman attended). President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first to travel by jet and the first to travel via helicopter. At the end of his term, he went on several "goodwill tours" . President John F. Kennedy had one of the most memorable trips to Europe as his final trip before he was assassinated. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson preferred travel to Asia. Richard Nixon set a number of firsts, in particular China. Jimmy Carter spent a great deal of time in the Middle East and went on the first state visit to Africa. Ronald Reagan had a number of noteworthy state visits, particularly his summit meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. International travel by a sitting President or a President elect has increased dramatically since George H. W. Bush became president in 1989. In 1990 the military version of the Boeing 747, the VC-25, was introduced for the use of the president. The planes have over of floor space, a bedroom and a shower, and enough secure communications to allow the plane to be a reasonable place to run the country. The plane is accompanied by a heavy lift aircraft that carries the helicopters and the limousines. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have individually visited 74 different countries over their two terms apiece. Together they went to 94 different countries with a combined population of 85% of the world total. President Obama visited 35 countries during his first term in office. , President Obama visited 17 more countries during his second term in office. Presidential visits of over are common. Round the world trips were first done by Johnson and Nixon and have been done by presidents Bush and Clinton. Trips to Europe are almost routine. It is customary for the first international trip of a Presidency to be to Canada; since 1981 all Presidents save George W. Bush have made Canada their first visit as President. The trips are color-coded to unite multiple stops on one trip and the majority of stops in one trip. Yellow indicates a trip mostly to Europe, silver is a trip mostly in Asia, orange is a trip mostly to Latin America, and green is a trip mostly to sub-saharan Africa. ==President Barack Obama== * President Obama met with Queen Elizabeth. Every president from Dwight Eisenhower (except Lyndon B. Johnson) has met and dined with The Queen. * The previous four POTUS visits since 1998 to sub-Saharan Africa were always dedicated trips conducted at huge expense involving the mobilization of massive military resources. President Obama has suggested that he won't go for the traditional model of devoting a trip to Africa alone. Instead, African nations might be wrapped into his multinational travels more often. * President Obama in the beginning of his presidency traveled much more often than President G.W. Bush and President Clinton. President Obama's international travel considerably diminished in his second year in office. * When President Obama traveled to Indonesia in November 2010, he was forced to leave Indonesia a few hours earlier than originally scheduled due to the ash plumes from the volcanic eruption of Mount Merapi. * President Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan in December 2010, he was forced to leave Afghanistan early than originally scheduled meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul due to the bad weather. * President Obama cut short a 24-hour visit to Ireland in May 2011 when an ash cloud from the erupting Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland approached Irish airspace during his visit. He had originally planned to spend the night in Dublin and to leave for London the following day, but flew from Dublin late on the night of his arrival to avoid the risk of being grounded in the morning. * President Obama is the first sitting president to visit Cambodia and Myanmar in November 2012. * President Obama is the first sitting president to visit Kenya and Ethiopia in July 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of international trips made by the President of the United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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