Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
International trips

Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Section Title: International trips
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Dates	Country	Locations	Details

1	December 2–5, 1952	South Korea	Seoul	Visit to Korean combat zone. (Visit made as President-elect.)

2	October 19, 1953	Mexico	Nueva Ciudad Guerrero	Dedication of Falcon Dam, with President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.

3	November 13–15, 1953	Canada	Ottawa	State visit. Met with Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Addressed Parliament.

4	December 4–8, 1953	Bermuda	Hamilton	Attended the Bermuda Conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Prime Minister Joseph Laniel.

5	July 16–23, 1955	Switzerland	Geneva	Attended the Geneva Summit with British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, French Premier Edgar Faure and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin.

6	July 21–23, 1956	Panama	Panama City	Attended the meeting of the presidents of the American republics.

7	March 20–24, 1957	Bermuda	Hamilton	Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

8	December 14–19, 1957	France	Paris	Attended the First NATO summit.

9	July 8–11, 1958	Canada	Ottawa	Informal visit. Met with Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Addressed Parliament.

10	February 19–20, 1959	Mexico	Acapulco	Informal meeting with President Adolfo López Mateos.

11	June 26, 1959	Canada	Montreal	Joined Queen Elizabeth II in ceremony opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.

12	August 26–27, 1959	West Germany	Bonn	Informal meeting with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and President Theodor Heuss.

August 27 – September 2, 1959	United Kingdom	London, Balmoral, Chequers	Informal visit. Met Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II.

September 2–4, 1959	France	Paris	Informal meeting with President Charles de Gaulle and Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni. Addressed North Atlantic Council.

September 4–7, 1959	United Kingdom	Culzean Castle	Rested before returning to the United States.

13	December 4–6, 1959	Italy	Rome	Informal visit. Met with President Giovanni Gronchi.

December 6, 1959	Vatican City	Apostolic Palace	Audience with Pope John XXIII.

December 6–7, 1959	Turkey	Ankara	Informal visit. Met with President Celâl Bayar.

December 7–9, 1959	Pakistan	Karachi	Informal visit. Met with President Ayub Khan.

December 9, 1959	Afghanistan	Kabul	Informal visit. Met with King Mohammed Zahir Shah.

December 9–14, 1959	India	New Delhi, Agra	Met with President Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Addressed Parliament.

December 14, 1959	Iran	Tehran	Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Addressed Parliament.

December 14–15, 1959	Greece	Athens	Official visit. Met with King Paul and Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis. Addressed Parliament.

December 17, 1959	Tunisia	Tunis	Met with President Habib Bourguiba.

December 18–21, 1959	France	Toulon, Paris	Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

December 21–22, 1959	Spain	Madrid	Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

December 22, 1959	Morocco	Casablanca	Met with King Mohammed V.

14	February 23–26, 1960	Brazil	Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo	Met with President Juscelino Kubitschek. Addressed Brazilian Congress.

February 26–29, 1960	Argentina	Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, San Carlos de Bariloche	Met with President Arturo Frondizi.

February 29 – March 2, 1960	Chile	Santiago	Met with President Jorge Alessandri.

March 2–3, 1960	Uruguay	Montevideo	Met with President Benito Nardone. Returned to the U.S. via Buenos Aires and Suriname.

15	May 15–19, 1960	France	Paris	Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

May 19–20, 1960	Portugal	Lisbon	Official visit. Met with President Américo Tomás.

16	June 14–16, 1960	Philippines	Manila	State visit. Met with President Carlos P. Garcia.

June 18–19, 1960	Republic of China	Taipei	State visit. Met with President Chiang Kai-shek.

June 19–20, 1960	South Korea	Seoul	Met with Prime Minister Heo Jeong. Addressed the National Assembly.

17	October 24, 1960	Mexico	Ciudad Acuña	Informal visit. Met with President Adolfo López Mateos.

Sentence(s)

Eisenhower made one international trip while president-elect, to South Korea on December 2–5, 1952, where he visited Seoul and the Korean combat zone.

final_sentence: Eisenhower made one international trip while president-elect, to South Korea on December 2–5, 1952, where he visited Seoul and the Korean combat zone.