In 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower visited eleven countries on three continents in order to strengthen the ties binding the nations of the Free World. President Eisenhower felt "there is no substitute for personal contact in furthering understanding and good will." The tour spanned 22,000 miles and twenty days from December 3 to December 22, 1959. In each nation the president visited with heads of state, toured points of interest and was honored with elaborate formal receptions.
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Countries visited
Italy
Turkey
Pakistan
Afghanistan
India
Iran
Greece
Tunisia
France
Spain
Morocco
Members of the presidential party
Major and Mrs. John S.D. Eisenhower
Thomas E. Stephens
James C. Hagerty
General Howard McCrum Snyder
Brigadier General Andrew J. Goodpaster
Secret Service Chief U.E. Baughman
Colonel William G. Draper
Kevin McCann
Dr. Malcolm Moos
Mrs. Ann Whitman, personal secretary to the president