Australia–United States relations Minister for Defence, US Secretary of Defense and US Secretary of State. The first Australian visit by a serving United States President was that of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 to seek support for Australia's ongoing involvement in the Vietnam War. Australia had previously sent advisers and combat troops to Vietnam. In 1992, George H. W. Bush was the first of four US presidents to address a joint meeting of the Australian Parliament. Australia's Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, ratified the Kyoto Protocol on 3 December 2007, leaving the United States and Canada as the last major industrial nations not to
State visit of the President of Ireland to the United Kingdom the Queen at Windsor Castle. A concert celebrating Irish music and culture was held in his honour at the Royal Albert Hall that night which he attended along with One Direction's Niall Horan. On the morning of the final day of the visit, the President and First Lady said farewell to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor Castle. Later that morning they visited the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Stratford-upon-Avon. The President and his wife also visited Coventry Cathedral and took a tour of the ruins of the old Cathedral. The final event of the visit was a