Interactive: Where U.S. Presidents Fear to Tread  Barack Obama
is on pace to visit 73 countries, one shy of the number of
passport stamps collected by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
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President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival at Arlanda Airport
in Stockholm, Sep. 4, 2013.  When President Obama touched down
in Sweden early Wednesday morning, he notched his 43rd foreign
country visited since taking the oath of office.  The president
probably doesn’t need the frequent flyer miles or the sense of
worldliness that comes with a well-stamped passport, but
presidents are still judged on their global itinerary.  Obama’s
two most recent predecessors each visited 74 different nations
or sovereign states during their eight years in office,
according to the State Department’s history of executive travel.
If Obama were to keep up his present pace–a rather unlikely
premise, since foreign trips do not accumulate steadily–he would
set foot in 73 separate foreig