Illustration of the first state dinner at the White House. David Kalākaua, monarch of the
Kingdom of Hawaii meeting with President Ulysses S. Grant.
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.
Ulysses S. Grant
Herbert Hoover
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 |
February 12, 1941 |
Luxembourg |
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg |
July 7, 1942 |
Colombia |
Alfonso López Pumarejo |
December 8, 1942 |
Cuba |
Fulgencio Batista |
June 9, 1943 |
Paraguay |
Higinio Moríñigo |
October 14, 1943 |
Haiti |
Élie Lescot |
January 19, 1944 |
Venezuela |
Isaías Medina Angarita |
June 7, 1944 |
Poland |
Stanisław Mikołajczyk |
August 24, 1944 |
Iceland |
Sveinn Björnsson |
March 23, 1945 |
Canada |
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone |
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 |
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, Oliver Franks, Baron Franks
|
May 18, 1949 |
Brazil |
Eurico Gaspar Dutra |
August 8, 1949 |
Philippines |
Elpidio Quirino |
November 16, 1949 |
Iran |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
March 28, 1951 |
France |
Vincent Auriol |
June 20, 1951 |
Ecuador |
Galo Plaza |
April 2, 1952 |
Netherlands |
Juliana of the Netherlands |
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 |
May 26, 1954 |
Ethiopia |
Haile Selassie of Ethiopia |
July 26, 1954 |
South Korea |
Syngman Rhee |
October 18, 1954 |
Liberia |
William Tubman |
January 26, 1955 |
Haiti |
Paul Magloire |
May 8, 1957 |
South Vietnam |
Ngo Dinh Diem |
October 17, 1957 |
Canada |
Elizabeth II of Canada |
June 4, 1958 |
West Germany |
Theodor Heuss |
June 17, 1958 |
Philippines |
Carlos P. Garcia |
January 20, 1959 |
Argentina |
Arturo Frondizi |
March 10, 1959 |
El Salvador |
José María Lemus |
March 17, 1959 |
Ireland |
Seán T. O'Kelly |
May 11, 1959 |
Belgium |
Baudouin of Belgium |
September 15, 1959 |
Soviet Union |
Nikita Khrushchev |
October 9, 1959 |
Mexico |
Adolfo López Mateos |
October 26, 1959 |
Guinea |
Ahmed Sékou Touré |
April 5, 1960 |
Colombia |
Alberto Lleras Camargo |
April 22, 1960 |
France |
Charles de Gaulle |
April 27, 1960 |
Nepal |
Mahendra of Nepal |
June 3, 1960 |
Canada |
John Diefenbaker |
June 28, 1960 |
Thailand |
Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand |
September 27, 1960 |
Japan |
Prince Akihito |
October 11, 1960 |
Denmark |
Frederick IX of Denmark |
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 |
National Symphony Orchestra |
September 19, 1961 |
Peru |
Manuel Prado Ugarteche |
Roberta Peters, Jerome Hines |
October 4, 1961 |
Sudan |
Ibrahim Abboud |
American Shakespeare Theatre |
November 7, 1961 |
India |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
|
February 13, 1962 |
Saudi Arabia |
Saud of Saudi Arabia |
|
April 11, 1962 |
Iran |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
Ballets: U.S.A., Jerome Robbins |
May 22, 1962 |
Ivory Coast |
Félix Houphouët-Boigny |
American Ballet Theatre |
February 19, 1963 |
Venezuela |
Rómulo Betancourt |
|
March 27, 1963 |
Morocco |
Hassan II of Morocco |
New York City Center Light Opera Company |
April 30, 1963 |
Luxembourg |
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg |
Basil Rathbone, Consort Players |
June 3, 1963 |
India |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Washington National Opera |
September 5, 1963 |
Afghanistan |
Mohammed Zahir Shah |
Military bands |
October 1, 1963 |
Ethiopia |
Haile Selassie of Ethiopia |
Joffrey Ballet |
October 15, 1963 |
Ireland |
Seán Lemass |
|
Lyndon B. Johnson
Date |
Visiting Country |
Guest(s) of Honor |
Location of Dinner |
Social Secretary |
Entertainment |
December 29, 1963 |
Germany |
Ludwig Erhard |
LBJ Ranch |
|
Pianist Van Cliburn |
June 1, 1964 |
Israel |
Levi Eshkol |
White House |
|
|
October 5, 1964 |
Philippines |
Diosdado Macapagal |
Bess Abell |
Harkness Ballet |
March 29, 1965 |
Upper Volta |
Maurice Yaméogo |
Dancers from the American Institute of Indian Art |
May 17, 1965 |
South Korea |
Park Chung-hee |
Walter Trampler |
December 14, 1965 |
Pakistan |
Ayub Khan |
|
June 21, 1966 |
Saudi Arabia |
Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud |
Fireworks |
September 8, 1966 |
Burma |
Ne Win |
|
September 14, 1966 |
Philippines |
Ferdinand Marcos |
New York City Center Light Opera Company |
September 28, 1966 (luncheon rather than dinner) |
Senegal |
Leopold Sedar Senghor |
|
February 14, 1967 |
Ethiopia |
Haile Selassie |
Singers Richard Tucker and Nedda Casei |
April 3, 1967 |
Turkey |
Cevdet Sunay |
Opera Company of Boston |
June 27, 1967 |
Thailand |
Bhumibol Adulydej of Thailand |
|
October 26, 1967 |
Mexico |
Gustavo Diaz-Ordaz |
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass |
November 1, 1967 |
Nepal |
King Mahendra |
Charlie Byrd |
March 20, 1968 |
Paraguay |
General Alfredo Stroessner |
April 25, 1968 |
Norway |
Olav V |
Jeoffrey Ballet |
May 15, 1968 |
Tunisia |
Habib Bourguiba |
Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade |
December 11, 1968 |
Kuwait |
Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah |
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 |
May 6, 1969 |
Australia |
John Gorton |
May 19, 1969 |
Sierra Leone |
Siaka Stevens |
May 27, 1969 |
Netherlands |
Petrus de Jong |
June 12, 1969 |
Colombia |
Carlos Lleras Restrepo |
July 8, 1969 |
Ethiopia |
Emperor Haile Selassie |
August 8, 1969 |
West Germany |
Kurt-Georg Kiesinger |
September 16, 1969 |
New Zealand |
Keith Holyoake |
September 25, 1969 |
Israel |
Golda Meir |
October 7, 1969 |
Laos |
Souvanna Phouma |
October 21, 1969 |
Iran |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
November 20, 1969 |
Japan |
Eisaku Satō |
January 27, 1970 |
United Kingdom |
Harold Wilson |
February 24, 1970 |
France |
Georges Pompidou |
April 10, 1970 |
West Germany |
Willy Brandt |
April 14, 1970 |
Denmark |
Hilmar Baunsgaard |
May 27, 1970 |
Indonesia |
Soeharto |
June 2, 1970 |
Venezuela |
Rafael Caldera Rodriguez |
July 23, 1970 |
Finland |
Urho Kekkonen |
August 4, 1970 |
DR Congo |
Mobutu Sese Seko |
December 17, 1970 |
United Kingdom |
Edward Heath |
February 18, 1971 |
Italy |
Emilio Colombo |
May 27, 1971 |
Saudi Arabia |
Faisal of Saudi Arabia |
October 28, 1971 |
Yugoslavia |
Josip Broz Tito |
November 4, 1971 |
India |
Indira Gandhi |
December 7, 1971 |
Brazil |
Emilio Medici |
March 21, 1972 |
Turkey |
Nihat Erim |
June 15, 1972 |
Mexico |
Luis Echeverria |
February 1, 1973 |
United Kingdom |
Edward Heath |
April 10, 1973 |
Singapore |
Lee Kuan Yew |
April 18, 1973 |
Italy |
Giulio Andreotti |
May 2, 1973 |
West Germany |
Willy Brandt |
May 15, 1973 |
Ethiopia |
Haile Selassie |
June 18, 1973 |
Soviet Union |
Leonid Brezhnev |
July 26, 1973 |
Iran |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
August 1, 1973 |
Japan |
Kakuei Tanaka |
September 20, 1973 |
Pakistan |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
September 29, 1973 |
New Zealand |
Norman Kirk |
October 11, 1973 |
Ivory Coast |
Felix Houphouet-Boigny |
December 4, 1973 |
Romania |
Nicolae Ceausescu |
March 12, 1974 (hosted by Vice President Gerald Ford in Nixon's place) |
Jordan |
Hussein of Jordan |
Gerald Ford
Date |
Visiting Country |
Guest(s) of Honor |
Social Secretary |
August 16, 1974 |
Jordan |
King Hussein of Jordan |
Maria Downs |
September 12, 1974 |
Israel |
Yitzhak Rabin |
September 25, 1974 |
Italy |
Giovanni Leone |
October 8, 1974 |
Poland |
Edward Gierek |
November 12, 1974 |
Austria |
Bruno Kreisky |
December 4, 1974 |
Canada |
Pierre Trudeau |
December 5, 1974 |
West Germany |
Helmut Schmidt |
February 5, 1975 |
Pakistan |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
January 30, 1975 |
United Kingdom |
Harold Wilson |
April 19, 1975 |
Zambia |
Kenneth Kaunda |
April 29, 1975 |
Jordan |
King Hussein of Jordan |
May 1, 1975 |
Tunisia |
Hedi Nouira |
May 8, 1975 |
Singapore |
Lee Kuan Yew |
May 14, 1975 |
Netherlands |
Joop den Uyl |
May 15, 1975 |
Iran |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
June 11, 1975 |
Israel |
Yitzhak Rabin |
June 16, 1975 |
West Germany |
Walter Scheel |
August 5, 1975 |
Japan |
Takeo Miki |
September 25, 1975 |
Colombia |
Alfonso Lopez Michelsen |
October 2, 1975 |
Japan |
Emperor Hirohito
Empress Nagako |
October 27, 1975 |
Egypt |
Anwar Sadat |
November 12, 1975 |
Luxembourg |
Gaston Thorn |
January 27, 1976 |
Israel |
Yitzhak Rabin |
March 17, 1976 |
Ireland |
Liam Cosgrave |
March 30, 1976 |
Jordan |
King Hussein of Jordan |
May 17, 1976 |
France |
Valery Giscard d'Estaing |
June 2, 1976 |
Spain |
King Juan Carlos
Queen Sofía |
July 7, 1976 |
United Kingdom |
Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh |
July 15, 1976 |
West Germany |
Helmut Schmidt |
July 27, 1976 |
Australia |
Malcolm Fraser |
August 3, 1976 |
Finland |
Urho Kekkonen |
September 21, 1976 |
Liberia |
William Tolbert |
December 6, 1976 |
Italy |
Giulio Andreotti |
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 |
The Young Columbians |
March 7, 1977 |
Israel |
Yitzhak Rabin |
The Alexandria Quartet |
March 10, 1977 |
United Kingdom |
James Callaghan |
Robert White |
March 21, 1977 |
Japan |
Takeo Fukuda |
The Tokyo String Quartet |
April 4, 1977 |
Egypt |
Anwar Al-Sadat |
|
April 25, 1977 |
Jordan |
King Hussein of Jordan |
Wind Quartet from the Richmond Symphony |
May 24, 1977 |
Saudi Arabia |
Fahd of Saudi Arabia |
|
June 22, 1977 |
Australia |
Malcolm Fraser |
|
June 28, 1977 |
Venezuela |
Carlos Andrés Pérez |
Cynthia Gregory and Ted Kivitt |
July 13, 1977 |
West Germany |
Helmut Schmidt |
Members of the Metropolitan Opera Company |
July 19, 1977 |
Israel |
Menachem Begin |
|
July 26, 1977 |
Italy |
Giulio Andreotti |
Shirley Verrett |
August 4, 1977 |
Tanzania |
Mwalimu Julius K. Neyere |
The Richard Quintet |
September 7, 1977 |
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
(dinner held in connection with the signing of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties regarding the transfer of the Panama Canal)
|
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
|
Martina Arroyo, Isaac Stern and Andre Previn |
September 9, 1977 |
France |
Raymond Barre |
Elizabeth Matesky |
October 11, 1977 |
Nigeria |
Olusegun Obasanjo |
Susan Starr |
October 19, 1977 |
Belgium |
Leo Tindemans |
|
November 15, 1977 |
Iran |
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
|
March 7, 1978 |
Yugoslavia |
Josip Broz Tito |
|
April 12, 1978 |
Romania |
Nicolae Ceaușescu |
George Shearing, Clamma Dale |
May 3, 1978 |
Japan |
Takeo Fukuda |
|
May 17, 1978 |
Zambia |
Kenneth Kaunda |
Mel Downs |
June 13, 1978 |
India |
Morarji Desai |
James Weaver |
November 14, 1978 |
Morocco |
Hassan II of Morocco |
Alvin Ailey |
January 29, 1979 |
China |
Deng Xiaoping |
|
February 6, 1979 |
Thailand |
Kriangsak Chomanan |
The American Dance Machine |
March 26, 1979 |
Egypt
Israel |
Anwar Al-Sadat
Menachem Begin |
Omar Khorshid and Gamal Abdel-Rahim
Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman
Leontyne Price |
May 2, 1979 |
Japan |
Masayoshi Ōhira |
Bobby Short |
September 28, 1979 |
Mexico |
José López Portillo |
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center |
November 8, 1979 |
Ireland |
Jack Lynch |
Washington Opera |
December 17, 1979 |
United Kingdom |
Margaret Thatcher |
|
January 24, 1980 |
Italy |
Francesco Cossiga |
Tom T. Hall |
February 20, 1980 |
Kenya |
Daniel arap Moi |
Delphin and Romain |
March 5, 1980 |
West Germany |
Helmut Schmidt |
The New York Jazz Repertory Company |
April 8, 1980 |
Egypt |
Anwar Al-Sadat |
The Statler Brothers |
April 15, 1980 |
Israel |
Menachem Begin |
The Guarneri String Quartet |
April 22, 1980 |
Belgium |
Baudouin of Belgium |
New York Harp Ensemble |
June 17, 1980 |
Jordan |
King Hussein of Jordan |
Andre Watts |
October 7, 1980 |
Nigeria |
Shehu Shagari |
Cicely Tyson |
Ronald Reagan
President Reagan with Brazilian President
José Sarney and
Pelé at a state dinner (1986)
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 |
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 |
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 |
Germany |
Helmut Kohl |
Joel Grey |
March 31, 1987 |
France |
Jacques Chirac |
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 |
Michael Carney Orchestra |
April 19, 1989 |
Jordan |
King Hussein I |
Mstislav Rostropovich and Lambert Orkis |
June 6, 1989 |
Pakistan |
Benazir Bhutto |
Itzhak Perlman |
June 27, 1989 |
Australia |
Robert Hawke |
Leontyne Price |
October 3, 1989 |
Mexico |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
Judy Kaye |
October 11, 1989 |
Italy |
Francesco Cossiga |
Isaac Stern |
January 24, 1990 |
Yemen |
Ali Abdullah Saleh |
Alessandra Marc |
March 6, 1990 |
Italy |
Giulio Andreotti |
Roberta Peters |
March 21, 1990 |
Poland |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki |
Garrick Ohlsson |
May 5, 1990 |
Tunisia |
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali |
Harry Connick Jr. |
May 30, 1990 |
Soviet Union |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
Frederica von Stade |
October 18, 1990 |
Hungary |
József Antall |
Van Cliburn |
February 20, 1991 |
Denmark |
Queen Margrethe II |
Frederica von Stade |
March 20, 1991 |
Poland |
Lech Walesa |
Karen Akers |
April 17, 1991 |
Nicaragua |
Violeta Chamorro |
Johnny Mathis |
May 14, 1991 |
United Kingdom |
Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh |
|
June 18, 1991 |
Brazil |
Fernando Collor de Mello |
Gloria Estefan |
July 2, 1991 |
South Korea |
Roh Tae Woo |
Broadway production The Phantom of the Opera |
September 10, 1991 |
Senegal |
Abdou Diouf |
Boys Choir of Harlem |
September 26, 1991 |
Morocco |
King Hassan II |
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 |
|
April 29, 1992 |
Germany |
Richard von Weizsäcker |
|
May 13, 1992 |
Chile |
Patricio Aylwin |
Yo-Yo Ma |
June 16, 1992 |
Russia |
Boris Yeltsin |
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 |
Mstislav Rostropovich |
July 25, 1994 |
Israel
Jordan |
Yitzhak Rabin
King Hussein I |
United States Marine Band |
September 27, 1994 |
Russia |
Boris Yeltsin |
Kathleen Battle |
October 4, 1994 |
South Africa |
Nelson Mandela |
Whitney Houston |
February 9, 1995 |
Germany |
Helmut Kohl |
Tony Bennett |
March 15, 1995 |
Morocco |
King Hassan II |
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Modern Jazz Quartet |
April 20, 1995 |
Brazil |
Fernando Cardoso |
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Ramsey Lewis and Billy Taylor |
July 27, 1995 |
South Korea |
Kim Young-sam |
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Liza Minnelli |
October 10, 1995 |
Mexico |
Ernesto Zedillo |
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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 |
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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 |
Elton John and Stevie Wonder |
May 6, 1998 |
Italy |
Romano Prodi |
David Miller and Marcus Haddock |
June 9, 1998 |
South Korea |
Kim Dae-jung |
Hong Hei-kyung |
September 16, 1998 |
Czech Republic |
Václav Havel |
Lou Reed |
October 28, 1998 |
Colombia |
Andrés Pastrana Arango |
Ainhoa Arteta |
January 11, 1999 |
Argentina |
Carlos Menem |
Robert Duvall and Luciana Pedraza |
February 24, 1999 |
Ghana |
Jerry Rawlings |
Najee |
April 8, 1999 |
China |
Zhu Rongji |
Yo-Yo Ma |
May 3, 1999 |
Japan |
Keizo Obuchi |
Van Cliburn |
June 8, 1999 |
Hungary |
Árpád Göncz |
Judy Collins and Cory Pesaturo |
February 23, 2000 |
Spain |
King Juan Carlos I |
Placido Domingo |
May 22, 2000 |
South Africa |
Thabo Mbeki |
Awadagin Pratt |
June 20, 2000 |
Morocco |
King Mohammed VI |
Earth, Wind, & Fire |
September 17, 2000 |
India |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
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 |
Vanessa Rubin |
May 19, 2003 |
Philippines |
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo |
Susan Graham |
October 6, 2003 |
Kenya |
Mwai Kibaki |
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
July 18, 2005 |
India |
Manmohan Singh |
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band |
November 2, 2005 |
United Kingdom |
Charles, Prince of Wales
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall |
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Yo-Yo Ma |
May 16, 2006 |
Australia |
John Howard |
Lea Berman |
Kenny Chesney |
June 29, 2006 |
Japan |
Junichiro Koizumi |
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 |
Reenactment of the Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States |
September 15, 2008 |
Ghana |
John Kufuor |
Broadway production The Lion King |
September 20, 2008 |
Colombia |
Alvaro Uribe Velez |
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October 13, 2008 |
Italy |
Silvio Berlusconi |
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 |
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 |
Ahn Trio and Janelle Monae |
March 14, 2012 |
United Kingdom |
David Cameron |
Mumford and Sons, John Legend |
February 11, 2014 |
France |
François Hollande |
Mary J. Blige |
April 28, 2015 |
Japan |
Shinzō Abe |
Cast of the film Jersey Boys |
September 25, 2015 |
China |
Xi Jinping |
Deesha Dyer |
Ne-Yo |
March 10, 2016 |
Canada |
Justin Trudeau |
Sara Bareilles |
May 13, 2016 |
Denmark
Finland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden |
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Sauli Niinistö
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson
Erna Solberg
Stefan Löfven |
Demi Lovato |
August 2, 2016 |
Singapore |
Lee Hsien Loong |
Chrisette Michele |
October 18, 2016 |
Italy |
Matteo Renzi |
Gwen Stefani |
Donald Trump
Joe Biden
Date |
Visiting Country |
Guest(s) of Honor |
Social Secretary |
Entertainment |
December 1, 2022 |
France |
Emmanuel Macron |
Carlos Elizondo |
TBD |