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Exclusive photo from Greater Seattle News Bureau, photo by Forde Photographers
(Left to Right) Jack Gordon of Greater Seattle (with mike), Pat Nixon, Vice President Nixon, Mort Frayn (back to camera), Seafair Prime Minister Sid Campbell (partially hidden by Frayn), Seafair Queen Carol Christensen, and Seafair King Ken Bowling.
The event took place on August 5, 1960. Gordon and Frayn were co-chairmen for the "Welcome for Nixon" at Sea-Tac Airport, which drew over 5,000 spectators to the airfield tarmac. The airport was closed for takeoffs and arrivals due to crush of people on the field.
Exclusive photo from Greater Seattle News Bureau, photo by Forde Photographers
VP Nixon speaking to the crowd with the ever-present "Seattle Seafair" logo on the podium.
Exclusive photo from Greater Seattle News Bureau, photo by Forde Photographers
Another view of Nixon speaking to the crowd.
the seattle times
A close-up of Nixon captured by a Seattle Times photographer.
As part of Frayn's thank you letter, enclosed with the local Nixon campaign's check for expenses incurred during the candidate's visit are these words, "This is being written on Tuesday afternoon [November 8] before the results are in, but I feel confident we are going through..." Unfortunately Chicago's mayor and the Kennedy clan had other plans.
Camera-Craft
During his successful 1968 campaign for President, Richard Nixon visited Seattle on September 24th. He spoke to a crowd of between 5,000 and 10,000 in University Plaza (located at the main entrance to the Olympic Hotel on University Street between 4th and 5th Avenues.) This photo shows candidate Nixon, ???, and Al Schilling, general manager of the Olympic Hotel.
Steve Reed Photography, Seattle
Nixon and Gordon exchanging views during a visit by the former President to Seattle during the 1980's.
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