Practically every president who has visited York County leaves some memorable mark. That includes Richard M. Nixon's October 1960 whistle stop visit. Notice the headline telling about the mass suspension of Dallastown students. For a working list of past presidential visits, click here. Background posts: Why did JFK lose to Nixon in York County? and JFK's visit to York County a long-remembered event and York Gazette: President Zachary Taylor lost sense of propriety during visit.
Richard Nixon made York part of history in including it along his desperate and well-chronicled 11th-hour quest for the White House in 1960.
His stop has largedly faded from York County's memory, overshadowed by JFK's York Fair visit weeks earlier.
His visit, like most presidential visits to York County, spawned lots of side stories. His confusion of two local candidates, George Goodling and Stanley Gross, is one of them.
His visit also reportedly attracted a cadre of Dallastown Area High School students, which led to their suspension... .
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