# List of state dinners in the United States

A state dinner in the United States is a formal dinner held in honor of a foreign head of state, such as a king, queen, president, or any head of government. It is hosted by the President of the United States and is usually held in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. Other formal dinners for important people of other nations, such as a prince or princess, are called official dinners, the difference being that the federal government does not pay for them. Nowadays these dinners are more often black tie rather than white tie (see formal wear).
The first state dinner was held on December 22, 1874, by President Ulysses S. Grant to welcome King Kalākaua of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
United States state dinners include a variety of dining events across the world, including conferences and summits. They influence many nations and their dining events. State dinners today have a lot more political significance than formerly, and are notably attended by prime ministers and presidents accompanied by politicians, entertainment and security services.

## Ulysses S. Grant

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary |
| December 22, 1874 | Hawaii | Kalākaua of Hawai'i | |

## Herbert Hoover

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary |
| April 29, 1931 | Thailand | Prajadhipok of Thailand | Mary Randolph |
| October 22, 1931 | France | Pierre Laval | |

## Franklin D. Roosevelt

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary |
| October 10, 1933 | Panama | Harmodio Arias Madrid | Edith Benham Helm |
| June 8, 1939 | United Kingdom | George VI of the United Kingdom | Edith Benham Helm |
| February 12, 1941 | Luxembourg | Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg | Edith Benham Helm |
| July 7, 1942 | Colombia | Alfonso López Pumarejo | Edith Benham Helm |
| December 8, 1942 | Cuba | Fulgencio Batista | Edith Benham Helm |
| June 9, 1943 | Paraguay | Higinio Moríñigo | Edith Benham Helm |
| October 14, 1943 | Haiti | Élie Lescot | Edith Benham Helm |
| January 19, 1944 | Venezuela | Isaías Medina Angarita | Edith Benham Helm |
| June 7, 1944 | Poland | Stanisław Mikołajczyk | Edith Benham Helm |
| August 24, 1944 | Iceland | Sveinn Björnsson | Edith Benham Helm |
| March 23, 1945 | Canada | Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | Edith Benham Helm |

## Harry S. Truman

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary |
| August 22, 1945 | France | Charles de Gaulle | |
| November 10, 1945 | Canada  United Kingdom | William Lyon Mackenzie King Clement Attlee | Edith Benham Helm |
| April 29, 1947 | Mexico | Miguel Alemán Valdés | Edith Benham Helm |
| April 4, 1949 | Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Iceland  Italy  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Portugal  United Kingdom | Paul-Henri Spaak, Robert Silvercruys [de] Lester B. Pearson, Humphrey Hume Wrong Gustav Rasmussen, Henrik Kauffmann Robert Schuman, Henri Bonnet Bjarni Benediktsson, Thor Thors Carlo Sforza, Alberto Tarchiani Joseph Bech, Hugues Le Gallais Dirk Stikker, Eelco van Kleffens Jose Caeiro da Mata, Pedro Teotónio Pereira Ernest Bevin, (Baron) Oliver Franks | Edith Benham Helm |
| May 18, 1949 | Brazil | Eurico Gaspar Dutra | Edith Benham Helm |
| August 8, 1949 | Philippines | Elpidio Quirino | Edith Benham Helm |
| November 16, 1949 | Iran | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Edith Benham Helm |
| March 28, 1951 | France | Vincent Auriol | Edith Benham Helm |
| June 20, 1951 | Ecuador | Galo Plaza | Edith Benham Helm |
| April 2, 1952 | Netherlands | Juliana of the Netherlands | Edith Benham Helm |

## Dwight D. Eisenhower

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary |
| October 28, 1953 | Greece | Paul of Greece | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| January 27, 1954 | Turkey | Celâl Bayar | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| May 26, 1954 | Ethiopia | Haile Selassie of Ethiopia | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| July 26, 1954 | South Korea | Syngman Rhee | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| October 18, 1954 | Liberia | William Tubman | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| January 26, 1955 | Haiti | Paul Magloire | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| May 8, 1957 | South Vietnam | Ngo Dinh Diem | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| October 17, 1957 | Canada | Elizabeth II of Canada | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| June 4, 1958 | West Germany | Theodor Heuss | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| June 17, 1958 | Philippines | Carlos P. Garcia | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| January 20, 1959 | Argentina | Arturo Frondizi | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| March 10, 1959 | El Salvador | José María Lemus | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| March 17, 1959 | Ireland | Seán T. O'Kelly | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| May 11, 1959 | Belgium | Baudouin of Belgium | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| September 15, 1959 | Soviet Union | Nikita Khrushchev | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| October 9, 1959 | Mexico | Adolfo López Mateos | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| October 26, 1959 | Guinea | Ahmed Sékou Touré | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| April 5, 1960 | Colombia | Alberto Lleras Camargo | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| April 22, 1960 | France | Charles de Gaulle | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| April 27, 1960 | Nepal | Mahendra of Nepal | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| June 3, 1960 | Canada | John Diefenbaker | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| June 28, 1960 | Thailand | Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| September 27, 1960 | Japan | Prince Akihito | Mary Jane McCaffrey |
| October 11, 1960 | Denmark | Frederik IX of Denmark | Mary Jane McCaffrey |

## John F. Kennedy

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| May 3, 1961 | Tunisia | Habib Bourguiba | Letitia Baldrige | |
| July 11, 1961 | Pakistan | Ayub Khan | Letitia Baldrige | National Symphony Orchestra |
| September 19, 1961 | Peru | Manuel Prado Ugarteche | Letitia Baldrige | Roberta Peters, Jerome Hines |
| October 4, 1961 | Sudan | Ibrahim Abboud | Letitia Baldrige | American Shakespeare Theatre |
| November 7, 1961 | India | Jawaharlal Nehru | Letitia Baldrige | |
| February 13, 1962 | Saudi Arabia | Saud of Saudi Arabia | Letitia Baldrige | |
| April 11, 1962 | Iran | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Letitia Baldrige | Ballets: U.S.A., Jerome Robbins |
| May 22, 1962 | Ivory Coast | Félix Houphouët-Boigny | Letitia Baldrige | American Ballet Theatre |
| February 19, 1963 | Venezuela | Rómulo Betancourt | Letitia Baldrige | |
| March 27, 1963 | Morocco | Hassan II of Morocco | Letitia Baldrige | New York City Center Light Opera Company |
| April 30, 1963 | Luxembourg | Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg | Letitia Baldrige | Basil Rathbone, Consort Players |
| June 3, 1963 | India | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Letitia Baldrige | Washington National Opera |
| September 5, 1963 | Afghanistan | Mohammed Zahir Shah | Letitia Baldrige | Military bands |
| October 1, 1963 | Ethiopia | Haile Selassie of Ethiopia | Letitia Baldrige | Joffrey Ballet |
| October 15, 1963 | Ireland | Seán Lemass | Letitia Baldrige | |

## Lyndon B. Johnson

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Location of Dinner | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| December 29, 1963 | West Germany | Ludwig Erhard | LBJ Ranch | | Pianist Van Cliburn |
| January 14, 1964 | Italy | Antonio Segni | White House | Bess Abell | Robert Merrill and The New Christy Minstrels |
| June 1, 1964 | Israel | Levi Eshkol | White House | Bess Abell | |
| October 5, 1964 | Philippines | Diosdado Macapagal | White House | Bess Abell | Harkness Ballet |
| March 29, 1965 | Upper Volta | Maurice Yaméogo | White House | Bess Abell | Dancers from the American Institute of Indian Art |
| May 17, 1965 | South Korea | Park Chung-hee | White House | Bess Abell | Walter Trampler |
| December 14, 1965 | Pakistan | Ayub Khan | White House | Bess Abell | |
| June 21, 1966 | Saudi Arabia | Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | White House | Bess Abell | Fireworks |
| September 8, 1966 | Burma | Ne Win | White House | Bess Abell | |
| September 14, 1966 | Philippines | Ferdinand Marcos | White House | Bess Abell | New York City Center Light Opera Company |
| September 28, 1966 (luncheon rather than dinner) | Senegal | Leopold Sedar Senghor | White House | Bess Abell | |
| February 14, 1967 | Ethiopia | Haile Selassie | White House | Bess Abell | Singers Richard Tucker and Nedda Casei |
| April 3, 1967 | Turkey | Cevdet Sunay | White House | Bess Abell | Opera Company of Boston |
| June 27, 1967 | Thailand | Bhumibol Adulydej of Thailand | White House | Bess Abell | |
| October 26, 1967 | Mexico | Gustavo Diaz-Ordaz | White House | Bess Abell | Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass |
| November 1, 1967 | Nepal | King Mahendra | White House | Bess Abell | Charlie Byrd |
| March 20, 1968 | Paraguay | General Alfredo Stroessner | White House | Bess Abell |
| April 25, 1968 | Norway | Olav V | White House | Bess Abell | Jeoffrey Ballet |
| May 15, 1968 | Tunisia | Habib Bourguiba | White House | Bess Abell | Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade |
| December 11, 1968 | Kuwait | Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah | White House | Bess Abell | Robert Merrill and The New Christy Minstrels |

## Richard Nixon

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary |
| March 24, 1969 | Canada | Pierre Trudeau | Lucy A. Winchester |
| April 8, 1969 | Jordan | King Hussein | Lucy A. Winchester |
| May 6, 1969 | Australia | John Gorton | Lucy A. Winchester |
| May 19, 1969 | Sierra Leone | Siaka Stevens | Lucy A. Winchester |
| May 27, 1969 | Netherlands | Petrus de Jong | Lucy A. Winchester |
| June 12, 1969 | Colombia | Carlos Lleras Restrepo | Lucy A. Winchester |
| July 8, 1969 | Ethiopia | Emperor Haile Selassie | Lucy A. Winchester |
| August 8, 1969 | West Germany | Kurt-Georg Kiesinger | Lucy A. Winchester |
| September 16, 1969 | New Zealand | Keith Holyoake | Lucy A. Winchester |
| September 25, 1969 | Israel | Golda Meir | Lucy A. Winchester |
| October 7, 1969 | Laos | Souvanna Phouma | Lucy A. Winchester |
| October 21, 1969 | Iran | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Lucy A. Winchester |
| November 20, 1969 | Japan | Eisaku Satō | Lucy A. Winchester |
| January 27, 1970 | United Kingdom | Harold Wilson | Lucy A. Winchester |
| February 24, 1970 | France | Georges Pompidou | Lucy A. Winchester |
| April 10, 1970 | West Germany | Willy Brandt | Lucy A. Winchester |
| April 14, 1970 | Denmark | Hilmar Baunsgaard | Lucy A. Winchester |
| May 27, 1970 | Indonesia | Soeharto | Lucy A. Winchester |
| June 2, 1970 | Venezuela | Rafael Caldera Rodriguez | Lucy A. Winchester |
| July 23, 1970 | Finland | Urho Kekkonen | Lucy A. Winchester |
| August 4, 1970 | DR Congo | Joseph-Désiré Mobutu | Lucy A. Winchester |
| December 17, 1970 | United Kingdom | Edward Heath | Lucy A. Winchester |
| February 18, 1971 | Italy | Emilio Colombo | Lucy A. Winchester |
| May 27, 1971 | Saudi Arabia | Faisal of Saudi Arabia | Lucy A. Winchester |
| October 28, 1971 | Yugoslavia | Josip Broz Tito | Lucy A. Winchester |
| November 4, 1971 | India | Indira Gandhi | Lucy A. Winchester |
| December 7, 1971 | Brazil | Emílio Médici | Lucy A. Winchester |
| March 21, 1972 | Turkey | Nihat Erim | Lucy A. Winchester |
| June 15, 1972 | Mexico | Luis Echeverria | Lucy A. Winchester |
| February 1, 1973 | United Kingdom | Edward Heath | Lucy A. Winchester |
| April 10, 1973 | Singapore | Lee Kuan Yew | Lucy A. Winchester |
| April 18, 1973 | Italy | Giulio Andreotti | Lucy A. Winchester |
| May 2, 1973 | West Germany | Willy Brandt | Lucy A. Winchester |
| May 15, 1973 | Ethiopia | Haile Selassie | Lucy A. Winchester |
| June 18, 1973 | Soviet Union | Leonid Brezhnev | Lucy A. Winchester |
| July 26, 1973 | Iran | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Lucy A. Winchester |
| August 1, 1973 | Japan | Kakuei Tanaka | Lucy A. Winchester |
| September 20, 1973 | Pakistan | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Lucy A. Winchester |
| September 29, 1973 | New Zealand | Norman Kirk | Lucy A. Winchester |
| October 11, 1973 | Ivory Coast | Felix Houphouet-Boigny | Lucy A. Winchester |
| December 4, 1973 | Romania | Nicolae Ceausescu | Lucy A. Winchester |
| March 12, 1974 (hosted by Vice President Gerald Ford in Nixon's place) | Jordan | Hussein of Jordan | Lucy A. Winchester |

## Gerald Ford

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary |
| August 16, 1974 | Jordan | Hussein of Jordan | Maria Downs |
| September 12, 1974 | Israel | Yitzhak Rabin | Maria Downs |
| September 25, 1974 | Italy | Giovanni Leone | Maria Downs |
| October 8, 1974 | Poland | Edward Gierek | Maria Downs |
| November 12, 1974 | Austria | Bruno Kreisky | Maria Downs |
| December 4, 1974 | Canada | Pierre Trudeau | Maria Downs |
| December 5, 1974 | West Germany | Helmut Schmidt | Maria Downs |
| February 5, 1975 | Pakistan | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Maria Downs |
| January 30, 1975 | United Kingdom | Harold Wilson | Maria Downs |
| April 19, 1975 | Zambia | Kenneth Kaunda | Maria Downs |
| April 29, 1975 | Jordan | King Hussein of Jordan | Maria Downs |
| May 1, 1975 | Tunisia | Hedi Nouira | Maria Downs |
| May 8, 1975 | Singapore | Lee Kuan Yew | Maria Downs |
| May 14, 1975 | Netherlands | Joop den Uyl | Maria Downs |
| May 15, 1975 | Iran | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Maria Downs |
| June 11, 1975 | Israel | Yitzhak Rabin | Maria Downs |
| June 16, 1975 | West Germany | Walter Scheel | Maria Downs |
| August 5, 1975 | Japan | Takeo Miki | Maria Downs |
| September 25, 1975 | Colombia | Alfonso Lopez Michelsen | Maria Downs |
| October 2, 1975 | Japan | Emperor Hirohito Empress Nagako | Maria Downs |
| October 27, 1975 | Egypt | Anwar Sadat | Maria Downs |
| November 12, 1975 | Luxembourg | Gaston Thorn | Maria Downs |
| January 27, 1976 | Israel | Yitzhak Rabin | Maria Downs |
| March 17, 1976 | Ireland | Liam Cosgrave | Maria Downs |
| March 30, 1976 | Jordan | King Hussein of Jordan | Maria Downs |
| May 17, 1976 | France | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Maria Downs |
| June 2, 1976 | Spain | King Juan Carlos Queen Sofía | Maria Downs |
| July 7, 1976 | United Kingdom | Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | Maria Downs |
| July 15, 1976 | West Germany | Helmut Schmidt | Maria Downs |
| July 27, 1976 | Australia | Malcolm Fraser | Maria Downs |
| August 3, 1976 | Finland | Urho Kekkonen | Maria Downs |
| September 21, 1976 | Liberia | William Tolbert | Maria Downs |
| December 6, 1976 | Italy | Giulio Andreotti | Maria Downs |

## Jimmy Carter

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| February 14, 1977 | Mexico | José López Portillo | Gretchen Poston | Rudolf Serkin |
| February 21, 1977 | Canada | Pierre Trudeau | Gretchen Poston | The Young Columbians |
| March 7, 1977 | Israel | Yitzhak Rabin | Gretchen Poston | The Alexandria Quartet |
| March 10, 1977 | United Kingdom | James Callaghan | Gretchen Poston | Robert White |
| March 21, 1977 | Japan | Takeo Fukuda | Gretchen Poston | The Tokyo String Quartet |
| April 4, 1977 | Egypt | Anwar Al-Sadat | Gretchen Poston | |
| April 25, 1977 | Jordan | King Hussein of Jordan | Gretchen Poston | Wind Quartet from the Richmond Symphony |
| May 24, 1977 | Saudi Arabia | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | Gretchen Poston | |
| June 22, 1977 | Australia | Malcolm Fraser | Gretchen Poston | |
| June 28, 1977 | Venezuela | Carlos Andrés Pérez | Gretchen Poston | Cynthia Gregory and Ted Kivitt |
| July 13, 1977 | West Germany | Helmut Schmidt | Gretchen Poston | Members of the Metropolitan Opera Company |
| July 19, 1977 | Israel | Menachem Begin | Gretchen Poston | |
| July 26, 1977 | Italy | Giulio Andreotti | Gretchen Poston | Shirley Verrett |
| August 4, 1977 | Tanzania | Mwalimu Julius K. Neyere | Gretchen Poston | The Richard Quintet |
| September 7, 1977 (Dinner held in connection with the signing of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties regarding the transfer of the Panama Canal) | Paraguay  Dominican Republic  Bolivia  Chile  Costa Rica  Venezuela  Guatemala  Colombia  Honduras  Peru  Ecuador  Argentina  Uruguay  El Salvador  Canada  Panama  Jamaica  Bahamas  Grenada  Brazil  Guyana  Haiti  Nicaragua  Mexico  Trinidad and Tobago  Suriname  Barbados | Alfredo Stroessner Joaquin Balaguer Hugo Banzer Suarez Augusto Pinochet Ugarte Daniel Oduber Quiros Carlos Andres Perez Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia Alfonso Lopez Michelsen Juan Alberto Melgar Castro Francisco Morales Bermudez Alfredo Poveda Burbano Jorge Rafael Videla Aparicio Mendez Carlos Humberto Romero Pierre Elliott Trudeau Omar Torrijos Herrera Michael Norman Manley Lynden O. Pindling Eric Gairy Adalberto Pereira dos Santos Ptolemy A. Reid Edner Brutus Cornelio Hueck Santiago Garcia Victor C. McIntyre Roel F. Karamat Oliver H. Jackman | Gretchen Poston | Martina Arroyo, Isaac Stern and Andre Previn |
| September 9, 1977 | France | Raymond Barre | Gretchen Poston | Elizabeth Matesky |
| October 11, 1977 | Nigeria | Olusegun Obasanjo | Gretchen Poston | Susan Starr |
| October 19, 1977 | Belgium | Leo Tindemans | Gretchen Poston | |
| November 15, 1977 | Iran | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Gretchen Poston | |
| March 7, 1978 | Yugoslavia | Josip Broz Tito | Gretchen Poston | |
| April 12, 1978 | Romania | Nicolae Ceaușescu | Gretchen Poston | George Shearing, Clamma Dale |
| May 3, 1978 | Japan | Takeo Fukuda | Gretchen Poston | |
| May 17, 1978 | Zambia | Kenneth Kaunda | Gretchen Poston | Mel Downs |
| June 13, 1978 | India | Morarji Desai | Gretchen Poston | James Weaver |
| November 14, 1978 | Morocco | Hassan II of Morocco | Gretchen Poston | Alvin Ailey |
| January 29, 1979 | China | Deng Xiaoping | Gretchen Poston | |
| February 6, 1979 | Thailand | Kriangsak Chomanan | Gretchen Poston | The American Dance Machine |
| March 26, 1979 | Egypt Israel | Anwar Al-Sadat Menachem Begin | Gretchen Poston | Omar Khorshid and Gamal Abdel-Rahim Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman Leontyne Price |
| May 2, 1979 | Japan | Masayoshi Ōhira | Gretchen Poston | Bobby Short |
| September 28, 1979 | Mexico | José López Portillo | Gretchen Poston | Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center |
| November 8, 1979 | Ireland | Jack Lynch | Gretchen Poston | Washington Opera |
| December 17, 1979 | United Kingdom | Margaret Thatcher | Gretchen Poston | |
| January 24, 1980 | Italy | Francesco Cossiga | Gretchen Poston | Tom T. Hall |
| February 20, 1980 | Kenya | Daniel arap Moi | Gretchen Poston | Delphin and Romain |
| March 5, 1980 | West Germany | Helmut Schmidt | Gretchen Poston | The New York Jazz Repertory Company |
| April 8, 1980 | Egypt | Anwar Al-Sadat | Gretchen Poston | The Statler Brothers |
| April 15, 1980 | Israel | Menachem Begin | Gretchen Poston | The Guarneri String Quartet |
| April 22, 1980 | Belgium | Baudouin of Belgium | Gretchen Poston | New York Harp Ensemble |
| June 17, 1980 | Jordan | King Hussein of Jordan | Gretchen Poston | Andre Watts |
| October 7, 1980 | Nigeria | Shehu Shagari | Gretchen Poston | Cicely Tyson |

## Ronald Reagan

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| February 26, 1981 | United Kingdom | Margaret Thatcher | Mabel Brandon | Dance Theatre of Harlem |
| May 7, 1981 | Japan | Zenkō Suzuki | | Shirley Verrett |
| May 21, 1981 | West Germany | Helmut Schmidt | | Juilliard String Quartet |
| June 30, 1981 | Australia | Malcolm Fraser | | Vincent Dowling |
| August 5, 1981 | Egypt | Anwar Sadat | | Gold and Fizdale |
| September 9, 1981 | Israel | Menachem Begin | | Andre-Michel Schub |
| October 13, 1981 | Spain | King Juan Carlos I | | Ella Fitzgerald |
| November 2, 1981 | Jordan | King Hussein I | | Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich |
| November 17, 1981 | Venezuela | Luis Herrera Campins | | Robert Goulet |
| February 3, 1982 | Egypt | Hosni Mubarak | | Itzhak Perlman and Samuel Sanders |
| March 25, 1982 | Italy | Sandro Pertini | | Perry Como and Frank Sinatra |
| April 19, 1982 | Netherlands | Queen Beatrix | | George Shearing and Brian Torff |
| May 12, 1982 | Brazil | João Figueiredo | | Sérgio Mendes |
| July 29, 1982 | India | Indira Gandhi | | New York Philharmonic |
| September 16, 1982 | Philippines | Ferdinand Marcos | | The 5th Dimension |
| October 12, 1982 | Indonesia | Suharto | | Frederica von Stade and Martin Katz |
| December 7, 1982 | Pakistan | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | | Pinchas Zukerman, Eugenia Zukerman, and Marc Neikrug |
| April 12, 1983 | Oman | Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said | | Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill |
| June 7, 1983 | Ivory Coast | Félix Houphouët-Boigny | | Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center |
| July 19, 1983 | Bahrain | Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa | | Byron Janis |
| September 15, 1983 | Portugal | António Ramalho Eanes | | Sergio Franchi |
| October 4, 1983 | West Germany | Karl Carstens | | Sherrill Milnes |
| December 7, 1983 | Nepal | King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah | | Ferrante & Teicher |
| January 10, 1984 | China | Zhao Ziyang | | Isaac Stern and Andrew Wolf |
| February 28, 1984 | Austria | Rudolf Kirchschläger | | Peter Nero and Mel Torme |
| March 22, 1984 | France | François Mitterrand | | Julio Iglesias |
| April 10, 1984 | Dominican Republic | Salvador Jorge Blanco | | Wayne Newton |
| May 15, 1984 | Mexico | Miguel de la Madrid | | Gloria Loring |
| June 18, 1984 | Sri Lanka | J.R. Jayewardene | | Frank Sinatra |
| November 13, 1984 | Luxembourg | Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | | Twyla Tharp Dance Company |
| December 4, 1984 | Venezuela | Jaime Lusinchi | | Andy Williams |
| February 11, 1985 | Saudi Arabia | Fahd of Saudi Arabia | | Montserrat Caballé |
| March 19, 1985 | Argentina | Raúl Alfonsín | | Pete Fountain |
| April 17, 1985 | Algeria | Chadli Bendjedid | | Fernando Bujones and Marianna Tcherkassky |
| June 12, 1985 | India | Rajiv Gandhi | | Mstislav Rostropovich and Lambert Orkis |
| July 23, 1985 | China | Li Xiannian | |
| September 10, 1985 | Denmark | Poul Schlüter | | Vic Damone |
| October 8, 1985 | Singapore | Lee Kuan Yew | | Karen Akers and Mark Hummel |
| January 14, 1986 | Ecuador | León Febres Cordero | | Jessye Norman and Phillip Moll |
| March 18, 1986 | Canada | Brian Mulroney | | Rosalyn Tureck |
| June 17, 1986 | Uruguay | Julio María Sanguinetti | | Dave Brubeck Quartet |
| September 10, 1986 | Brazil | José Sarney | Linda Faulkner | Paul Anka |
| October 21, 1986 | West Germany | Helmut Kohl | Linda Faulkner | Joel Grey |
| March 31, 1987 | France | Jacques Chirac | Linda Faulkner | Dionne Warwick |
| April 30, 1987 | Japan | Yasuhiro Nakasone | | Henry Mancini |
| September 9, 1987 | Sweden | Ingvar Carlsson | | Marilyn Horne and Martin Katz |
| October 14, 1987 | El Salvador | José Napoleón Duarte | | Lionel Hampton |
| November 10, 1987 | Israel | Chaim Herzog | | Roberta Peters and Yakov Kreizberg |
| December 8, 1987 | Soviet Union | Mikhail Gorbachev | | Van Cliburn |
| January 28, 1988 | Egypt | Hosni Mubarak | | Patti Austin and David Benoit |
| April 27, 1988 | Canada | Brian Mulroney | | Bruce Hubbard and Larry Woodard |
| June 27, 1988 | Turkey | Kenan Evren | | Christopher Parkening |
| October 6, 1988 | Mali | Moussa Traoré | | Pete Fountain |
| November 16, 1988 | United Kingdom | Margaret Thatcher | | Michael Feinstein |

## George H.W. Bush

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| April 4, 1989 | Egypt | Hosni Mubarak | Laurie Firestone | |
| April 6, 1989 | Israel | Yitzak Shamir | Laurie Firestone | Michael Carney Orchestra |
| April 19, 1989 | Jordan | King Hussein I | Laurie Firestone | Mstislav Rostropovich and Lambert Orkis |
| June 6, 1989 | Pakistan | Benazir Bhutto | Laurie Firestone | Itzhak Perlman |
| June 27, 1989 | Australia | Robert Hawke | Laurie Firestone | Leontyne Price |
| October 3, 1989 | Mexico | Carlos Salinas de Gortari | Laurie Firestone | Judy Kaye |
| October 11, 1989 | Italy | Francesco Cossiga | Laurie Firestone | Isaac Stern |
| January 24, 1990 | Yemen | Ali Abdullah Saleh | Laurie Firestone | Alessandra Marc |
| March 6, 1990 | Italy | Giulio Andreotti | Laurie Firestone | Roberta Peters |
| March 21, 1990 | Poland | Tadeusz Mazowiecki | Laurie Firestone | Garrick Ohlsson |
| May 5, 1990 | Tunisia | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | Laurie Firestone | Harry Connick Jr. |
| May 30, 1990 | Soviet Union | Mikhail Gorbachev | Laurie Firestone | Frederica von Stade |
| October 18, 1990 | Hungary | József Antall | Laurie Firestone | Van Cliburn |
| February 20, 1991 | Denmark | Queen Margrethe II | Laurie Firestone | Frederica von Stade |
| March 20, 1991 | Poland | Lech Walesa | Laurie Firestone | Karen Akers |
| April 17, 1991 | Nicaragua | Violeta Chamorro | Laurie Firestone | Johnny Mathis |
| May 14, 1991 | United Kingdom | Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | Laurie Firestone | |
| June 18, 1991 | Brazil | Fernando Collor de Mello | Laurie Firestone | Gloria Estefan |
| July 2, 1991 | South Korea | Roh Tae Woo | Laurie Firestone | Broadway production The Phantom of the Opera |
| September 10, 1991 | Senegal | Abdou Diouf | Laurie Firestone | Boys Choir of Harlem |
| September 26, 1991 | Morocco | King Hassan II | Laurie Firestone | Roberta Peters |
| February 26, 1992 | Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Mexico Peru Venezuela | Jaime Paz Zamora César Gaviria Rodrigo Borja Cevallos Carlos Salinas de Gortari Alberto Fujimori Armando Durán | Laurie Firestone | |
| April 29, 1992 | Germany | Richard von Weizsäcker | Laurie Firestone | |
| May 13, 1992 | Chile | Patricio Aylwin | Laurie Firestone | Yo-Yo Ma |
| June 16, 1992 | Russia | Boris Yeltsin | Laurie Firestone | Carol Vaness |

## Bill Clinton

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| November 23, 1993 | South Korea | Kim Young-sam | Ann Stock | Jessye Norman |
| June 13, 1994 | Japan | Emperor Akihito Empress Michiko | Ann Stock | Mstislav Rostropovich |
| July 25, 1994 | Israel Jordan | Yitzhak Rabin King Hussein I | Ann Stock | United States Marine Band |
| September 27, 1994 | Russia | Boris Yeltsin | Ann Stock | Kathleen Battle |
| October 4, 1994 | South Africa | Nelson Mandela | Ann Stock | Whitney Houston |
| February 9, 1995 | Germany | Helmut Kohl | Ann Stock | Tony Bennett |
| March 15, 1995 | Morocco | King Hassan II | | Modern Jazz Quartet |
| April 20, 1995 | Brazil | Fernando Cardoso | | Ramsey Lewis and Billy Taylor |
| July 27, 1995 | South Korea | Kim Young-sam | | Liza Minnelli |
| October 10, 1995 | Mexico | Ernesto Zedillo | | Limon Dance Company |
| February 1, 1996 | France | Jacques Chirac | | Thomas Hampson |
| June 13, 1996 | Ireland | Mary Robinson | | Mary Chapin Carpenter and Mary Black |
| February 26, 1997 | Chile | Eduardo Frei | | Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor |
| April 8, 1997 | Canada | Jean Chrétien | | Warren Jones and Denyce Graves |
| October 29, 1997 | China | Jiang Zemin | Capricia Marshall | National Symphony Orchestra |
| February 5, 1998 | United Kingdom | Tony Blair | Capricia Marshall | Elton John and Stevie Wonder |
| May 6, 1998 | Italy | Romano Prodi | Capricia Marshall | David Miller and Marcus Haddock |
| June 9, 1998 | South Korea | Kim Dae-jung | Capricia Marshall | Hong Hei-kyung |
| September 16, 1998 | Czech Republic | Václav Havel | Capricia Marshall | Lou Reed |
| October 28, 1998 | Colombia | Andrés Pastrana Arango | Capricia Marshall | Ainhoa Arteta |
| January 11, 1999 | Argentina | Carlos Menem | Capricia Marshall | Robert Duvall and Luciana Pedraza |
| February 24, 1999 | Ghana | Jerry Rawlings | Capricia Marshall | Najee |
| April 8, 1999 | China | Zhu Rongji | Capricia Marshall | Yo-Yo Ma |
| May 3, 1999 | Japan | Keizo Obuchi | Capricia Marshall | Van Cliburn |
| June 8, 1999 | Hungary | Árpád Göncz | Capricia Marshall | Judy Collins and Cory Pesaturo |
| February 23, 2000 | Spain | King Juan Carlos I | Capricia Marshall | Placido Domingo |
| May 22, 2000 | South Africa | Thabo Mbeki | Capricia Marshall | Awadagin Pratt |
| June 20, 2000 | Morocco | King Mohammed VI | Capricia Marshall | Earth, Wind, & Fire |
| September 17, 2000 | India | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Capricia Marshall | Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center |

## George W. Bush

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| September 5, 2001 | Mexico | Vicente Fox | Catherine Fenton | Dawn Upshaw |
| July 17, 2002 | Poland | Aleksander Kwaśniewski | Catherine Fenton | Vanessa Rubin |
| May 19, 2003 | Philippines | Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | Catherine Fenton | Susan Graham |
| October 6, 2003 | Kenya | Mwai Kibaki | Catherine Fenton | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| July 18, 2005 | India | Manmohan Singh | | Preservation Hall Jazz Band |
| November 2, 2005 | United Kingdom | Charles, Prince of Wales Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall | | Yo-Yo Ma |
| May 16, 2006 | Australia | John Howard | Lea Berman | Kenny Chesney |
| June 29, 2006 | Japan | Junichiro Koizumi | Lea Berman | The Brian Setzer Orchestra |
| May 7, 2007 | United Kingdom | Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | Amy Zantzinger | Itzhak Perlman |
| November 6, 2007 | France | Nicolas Sarkozy | Amy Zantzinger | Reenactment of the Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States |
| September 15, 2008 | Ghana | John Kufuor | Amy Zantzinger | Broadway production The Lion King |
| September 20, 2008 | Colombia | Alvaro Uribe Velez | Amy Zantzinger | |
| October 13, 2008 | Italy | Silvio Berlusconi | Amy Zantzinger | Broadway production Jersey Boys |

## Barack Obama

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| November 24, 2009 | India | Manmohan Singh | Desiree Rogers | National Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Hudson, Kurt Elling, and A.R. Rahman |
| May 19, 2010 | Mexico | Felipe Calderon | Julianna Smoot | Beyoncé and Rodrigo y Gabriela |
| January 19, 2011 | China | Hu Jintao | Julianna Smoot | Chris Botti, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Herbie Hancock, Lang Lang, Dianne Reeves, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz |
| June 7, 2011 | Germany | Angela Merkel | Jeremy Bernard | James Taylor |
| October 13, 2011 | South Korea | Lee Myung-bak | Jeremy Bernard | Ahn Trio and Janelle Monae |
| March 14, 2012 | United Kingdom | David Cameron | Jeremy Bernard | Mumford and Sons, John Legend |
| February 11, 2014 | France | François Hollande | Jeremy Bernard | Mary J. Blige |
| April 28, 2015 | Japan | Shinzō Abe | Jeremy Bernard | Cast of the film Jersey Boys |
| September 25, 2015 | China | Xi Jinping | Deesha Dyer | Ne-Yo |
| March 10, 2016 | Canada | Justin Trudeau | Deesha Dyer | Sara Bareilles |
| May 13, 2016 | Denmark Finland Iceland Norway Sweden | Lars Løkke Rasmussen Sauli Niinistö Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson Erna Solberg Stefan Löfven | Deesha Dyer | Demi Lovato |
| August 2, 2016 | Singapore | Lee Hsien Loong | Deesha Dyer | Chrisette Michele |
| October 18, 2016 | Italy | Matteo Renzi | Deesha Dyer | Gwen Stefani |

## Donald Trump
### First presidency

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| April 24, 2018 | France | Emmanuel Macron | Rickie Niceta | Washington National Opera |
| September 20, 2019 | Australia | Scott Morrison | Rickie Niceta | U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines Bands |

### Second presidency

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |

## Joe Biden

| Date | Visiting Country | Guest(s) of Honor | Social Secretary | Entertainment |
| December 1, 2022 | France | Emmanuel Macron | Carlos Elizondo | Jon Batiste |
| April 26, 2023 | South Korea | Yoon Suk Yeol | Carlos Elizondo | Norm Lewis, Jessica Vosk, Lea Salonga, Yoon Suk Yeol |
| June 22, 2023 | India | Narendra Modi | Carlos Elizondo | Joshua Bell |
| October 25, 2023 | Australia | Anthony Albanese | Carlos Elizondo | U.S. Marine Band |
| April 10, 2024 | Japan | Fumio Kishida | Carlos Elizondo | Paul Simon |
| May 23, 2024 | Kenya | William Ruto | Carlos Elizondo | Brad Paisley, Gospel Choir of Howard University |