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To the Editor:
This is a response to your front page question “How Many Presidents Have Visited the Cove?” in the Oct. 29, 2020, edition.
Do future presidents or candidates count? I was working for Penn Air, Inc., at the airport as a line boy. In 1968, presidential candidates Hubert H. Humphrey (D) and Richard M. Nixon (R) arrived in a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft. One was American Airlines, the other American Flyers Airlines. They each held a rally in Blair County (I think they were in the city of Altoona).
I know presidential candidate George McGovern (D) landed at the airport in a chartered Northeast Airline Boeing 727 for a rally somewhere in the local area.
Recording artist Don McLean of “American Pie” fame was traveling with candidate McGovern. I don’t recall what year this occurred; however, candidate McGovern was in the 1972 election.
David Gurkin
Via email
Reader Comments(1)
Gleaner43 writes:
At least twice while he was in the White House, Ike landed at Martinsburg and motored to State College to visit his brother Milton Eisenhower, then top dog at Penn State. My brother Bill and I stood on the milk stand on PA 866 -- Piney Creek Road -- to salute our president as he passed north. Once my daddy drove us up Spring Street to look over what was the predecessor of Air Force One, Eisenhower's Super Constellation he called Columbine. Insurance man Ken Stover was there, too, and he remarked: 'Yep, there it is. Columbian Airlines.'
11/06/2020, 4:17 pm