History Flash
Candidates on Campus
Through the years, presidential candidates have made occasional visits to UNM. Were you on campus to see any of them? Send us your memories of these visits to alumni@unm.edu.
On September 28, 1948, a Daily Lobo poll indicated that students would elect Dewey over Truman. Photo by United States Army Signal Corps
Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy visited UNM on November 3, 1960, five days before his election as president. According to the Daily Lobo, on the day of his visit, students took a mock poll, and elected Richard Nixon. Photo courtesy UNM Archives.
Vice Presidential candidate Lyndon Baines Johnson visited the UNM campus in 1960. Photo courtesy UNM Archives.
Robert F. Kennedy visited UNM on April 1, 1968. He told the gathered crowd that he preferred negotiated peace to withdrawal from Viet Nam. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968. The yearbook published in 1969 commemorated his visit with this quote: "Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people." Photo courtesy UNM Archives.
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton on campus in 1992, a year before becoming President. Photos courtesy UNM Archives.