United States presidential visits to the United Kingdom
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There have been thirty-three U.S. presidential visits to the United Kingdom by eleven presidents, since the end of World War I in 1918. The United States and the United Kingdom are bound together by shared history, an overlap in religion and a common language and legal system, and kinship ties that reach back hundreds of years, including kindred, ancestral lines among Cornish Americans, English Americans, Manx Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, Welsh Americans, and American Britons respectively. Today large numbers of expatriates live in both countries.
Table of visits
President | Dates | Locations | Major events |
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Woodrow Wilson | December 26–28, 1918 | London, Carlisle, Manchester |
Met with Prime Minister David Lloyd George and King George V.[1] |
Harry S. Truman | August 2, 1945 | Plymouth | Informal meeting with King George VI.[2] |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | August 27 – September 2, 1959 | London, Balmoral, Chequers |
Informal visit. Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II.[3] |
September 4–7, 1959 | Culzean Castle | Rested before returning to the United States.[3] | |
John F. Kennedy | June 4–5, 1961 | London | Private visit. Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II.[4] |
June 29–30, 1963 | Birch Grove | Informal visit with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his home.[4] | |
Richard Nixon | February 24–26, 1969 | London | Informal visit. Delivered several public addresses.[5] |
August 3, 1969 | RAF Mildenhall | Informal meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson.[5] | |
October 3, 1970 | Chequers | Met informally with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Edward Heath.[5] | |
Jimmy Carter | May 5–11, 1977 | London, Newcastle, Sunderland |
Attended the 3rd G7 summit. Also met with the Prime Ministers of Greece, Belgium, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and with the President of Portugal. Addressed the NATO Ministers meeting.[6] |
Ronald Reagan | June 7–9, 1982 | London, Windsor Castle |
State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Addressed Parliament.[7] |
June 4–10, 1984 | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Attended the 10th G7 summit.[7] | |
June 2–3, 1988 | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.[7] | |
George H. W. Bush | May 31 – June 2, 1989 | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[8] |
July 5–6, 1990 | London | Attended NATO Summit Meeting.[8] | |
July 14–18, 1991 | London | Attended the 17th G7 summit. Also met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.[8] | |
Bill Clinton | June 4–5, 1994 | Cambridge, London, Portsmouth |
Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. Met with Prime Minister John Major. Attended state dinner with Queen Elizabeth II and heads of state and government of Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. Attended D-Day commemorative ceremonies.[9] |
June 8, 1994 | Oxford | Received honorary degree from Oxford University.[9] | |
November 28 – December 1, 1995 |
London, Belfast, Derry |
State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister John Major. Addressed Parliament. Delivered several public addresses in Northern Ireland.[9] | |
May 28–29, 1997 | London | Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and attended a Cabinet meeting.[9] | |
May 14–18, 1998 | Birmingham, Weston-under-Lizard, London |
Attended the 24th G8 summit and the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting.[9] | |
September 3, 1998 | Belfast, Armagh, Omagh |
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders. Addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly.[9] | |
December 12–14, 2000 | Belfast, London, Coventry |
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders in Belfast. Met with Queen Elizabeth II; made a speech at the University of Warwick.[9] | |
George W. Bush | July 18–20, 2001 | London, Chequers, Halton, Brize Norton |
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II.[10] |
April 7–8, 2003 | Belfast, Hillsborough |
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss the reconstruction of Iraq. Also met with the Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Northern Irish political leaders.[10] | |
November 18–21, 2003 | London, Sedgefield |
State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and stayed at Buckingham Palace, where a formal state reception was held. In lieu of formal address to parliament, gave an address at Banqueting House. Later accompanied Prime Minister Blair on a tour of the latter's constituency in Sedgefield.[10] | |
July 6–8, 2005 | Gleneagles | Attended the 31st G8 summit.[10] | |
June 15–16, 2008 | London, Belfast |
Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Quartet Representative Tony Blair. In Belfast, met with the Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.[10] | |
Barack Obama | March 31 – April 3, 2009 | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Attended the G-20 summit meeting.[11][12] |
May 23–26, 2011 | London | State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and stayed at Buckingham Palace where a ceremonial welcome and state dinner was given. Laid a wreath at the Tomb of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey. Addressed a joint session of the British Parliament in Westminster Hall. Met with Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.[11] | |
June 17–18, 2013 | Belfast, Lough Erne |
Attended the 39th G8 summit.[11] | |
September 4–5, 2014 | Newport | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.[11] | |
April 21–24, 2016 | London, Windsor, Watford | Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. |
See also
- United Kingdom–United States relations
- Foreign policy of the United States
- Foreign relations of the United States
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