LBJ asks predominantly Republican Rockford audience for votes
May 1st, 2008 at 11:40am Anna Voelker
We published a new “Remember When” gallery today on rrstar.com. This time, check out pictures, newspaper pages and articles from President Lyndon B. Johnson’s visit to the Rock River Valley in October 1974.
We’ve gotten a lot of positive response from readers since launching these galleries. Next up is Richard Nixon’s visit here.
RRSTAR.COM FILE PHOTO
Then-president Lyndon B. Johnson tried to excite a crowd of 35,000 area residents but only drew “polite applause.” Johnson’s visit drew more people than Kennedy or Nixon’s, but the Johnson crowd “lacked the zeal and enthusiasm of Nixon and Kennedy partisans,” wrote a Rockford Morning Star reporter in 1964.
Entry Filed under: Lyndon B. Johnson, Remember When, Photo galleries
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