CLINTON'S NEVADA VISIT WILL BREAK A DROUGHT.Byline: Associated Press President Clinton's planned Lake Tahoe summit this spring will mark one of the few times a chief executive has visited Nevada in search of much more than votes or a speaker's fee. Except for a 64-year-old asterisk, reference books seldom put presidents and Nevada in the same sentence, according to state archivist ARCHIVIST. One to whose care the archives have been confided. Guy Rocha. Nevada reached one brief level of historic significance on election eve in November 1932 when Herbert Hoover made his final broadcast as president from a railroad car parked on a siding in Elko. Hoover's 11-minute address was a re-election pitch that fell on deaf ears. He continued the next day to his home in Palo Alto, and tossed his ballot uphill against the landslide of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The last president to link national policy and Nevada during a noncampaign appearance in the state was John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in on Sept. 28, 1963, less than two months before his assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. . Tahoe also was on his mind during the final speech of a 10,000-mile swing to boost conservation. He touted the lake as ``the gem of the Sierras,'' and a fragile treasure worth preserving. The remarks came six years before the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (or TRPA) was formed in 1969 through a bi-state compact between California and Nevada which was ratified by the U.S. Congress. The agency is mandated to protect the environment of the Lake Tahoe Basin through land-use regulations and is one of was formed and shortly after the Nevada Legislature rejected a plan to join California in the creation of a bistate bi·state adj. Of, relating to, or involving two states: bistate cooperation in combating crime. park. Kennedy's speech at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. ended a five-day tour of 11 states. His conservation message also praised the Lake Mead-Hoover Dam complex for its lure as a recreational destination. The last Las Vegas visit by an in-office president came exactly 28 years earlier in September 1935. It also centered on Hoover Dam as Roosevelt dedicated the structure spanning the Colorado River. Rocha thinks the scarcity of noncampaign visits by a president - and their brevity - adds to the significance of Clinton's trip. ``We've never had something as substantive as a summit,'' he said. Rocha has chronicled presidential whistle-stops with a somewhat cynical look at history. He thinks Nevada's scant population and skimpy number of electoral votes have seldom made it a drawing card for chief executives. ``It has always been, with a few exceptions, an afterthought,'' he said. The only president who ventured across the Continental Divide to Nevada in the 19th century was Rutherford B. Hayes. He stopped off in the Comstock in 1880, 11 years after the completion of the transcontinental railroad. The dawn of the 20th century brought William McKinley - briefly - to Wells and Carlin car·line or car·lin n. Scots A woman, especially an old one. [Middle English kerling, from Old Norse, from karl, man.] in May 1901. Officials in Reno and Elko were miffed miff n. 1. A petulant, bad-tempered mood; a huff. 2. A petty quarrel or argument; a tiff. tr.v. miffed, miff·ing, miffs To cause to become offended or annoyed. as the eastbound presidential train sailed through. The only stops were in Carlin to add engines before the climb over the grades east of Elko and in Wells, where the locomotives were removed. His successor, Theodore Roosevelt, stopped to pitch conservation two years later in Reno and Carson City. He spoke in front of the state Capitol on plans to expand forest reserves, protect watersheds and provide land for settlers rather than land speculators. Otherwise, only William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2 1865 – August 2 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, from 1921 and Calvin Coolidge bypassed the state this century. Woodrow Wilson stopped in Reno in September 1919 to pitch the Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles was the agreement negotiated during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that ended World War I and imposed disarmament, reparations, and territorial changes on the defeated Germany. and the League of Nations. After that, unless there was campaigning to be done, chief executives were scarce in Nevada until Franklin Roosevelt dedicated Hoover Dam in 1935 and John Kennedy hailed it - and Lake Tahoe - in 1963. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: President Clinton is planning a summit this spring at Lake Tahoe, a significant milestone for Nevada. Associated Press |
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