First Family Travels

President Obama will make a historic visit to Puerto Rico, fulfilling a promise he made when he went there during the 2008 primaries.

President Obama will visit Puerto Rico on June 14, the first official visit by a sitting president since John F. Kennedy stopped there, in 1961. “Since the beginning of my administration, we have been working in close collaboration with the president and his administration to make this historic visit a reality,” Gov. Luis Fortuno, of Puerto Rico, a Republican, said in announcing the trip. President Gerald R. Ford visited in 1976, but he was there as a member of the Group of Seven economic summit, not on an official presidential visit.

A week later Michelle, Sasha, Malia, and Marian Robinson will go to South Africa and Botswana.

First Lady Michelle Obama announced that she will travel to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa and Gaborone, Botswana during an official visit to Africa from June 21 – 26 focused on youth leadership, education, health and wellness...

In addition to advancing her international youth engagement agenda, the First Lady’s events will amplify the President’s support for democracy, development and economic opportunity across Africa. During her trip, Mrs. Obama will deliver the keynote address to a U.S.-sponsored Young African Women Leaders Forum in South Africa. Forum participants include young women from across sub-Saharan Africa who are leading or involved in social and economic initiatives in their own countries. The Forum will build on the Obama Administration’s ongoing engagement with the next generation of African leaders and the momentum of the August 2010 President’s Forum with Young African Leaders held at the White House.