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Presidents visits Iowa show evolving travel and media role
The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette notes presidents visited Des Moines and central Iowa, with Truman’s train passing without stopping and Clinton’s Cedar Rapids trip in 1995 as an international media event. The piece traces travel changes from Teddy Roosevelt to Bush and Clinton, plus safety planning at Hoover Library visits.
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Cedar Rapids
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
George Bush
Des Moines
Iowa
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Cary Covington
University of Iowa
Teddy Roosevelt
Clinton
Air Force One
California
Covington
Truman
Bush
Vaclav Havel
Michal Kovac
Nikita Khrushchev
Roswell
Elizabeth Garst
Coon Rapids
Davenport
Eldridge
Denison
Ford
Ames
Eisenhower
Marion
Rea
National
Cornrowers Association
Johnson
Carter
Reagan
Presiden
Ual
Adlai Stevenson
Tom Tauke
Carver- Hawkeye Arena
Iowa City
New Hampshire
Hoover
West Branch
West Liberty
Oxford
Grinnell
Norway
Fairfax
Winterset
Kennedy
Hoover Presidential Library Museum
Nixon
Dan Quayle
Hamburg Inn
Floyd Fawcett
Hoover Museum