Tag: President

President Lyndon B. Johnson, the first president ever to sleep in Orlando, stayed at the Cherry Plaza just around the corner from the Buning's family home on Lake Eola during his 1964 campaign visit. Alice Buning remembers competing with her brother, Rick ... Read more

Sometime between 1974 and 1975, President Gerald R. Ford visited the campus of  Florida Technological University (FTU) now University of Central Florida (UCF) to speak to the Society of Professional Journalists. My husband was attending school there ... Read more

ABOVE: President Nixon addressing graduates on 8 June 1973 at Florida Technological University (FTU) now University of Central Florida (UCF).   On June 8, 1973, then President Richard M. Nixon addressed graduates and guests numbering almost 10,000 ... Read more