Presidents and candidates like summer travel in the Coulee Region

Many presidents and candidates for the job have made it to the La Crosse area in the summertime. 

In August 1979, President Jimmy Carter traveled down the Mississippi on the Delta Queen with his wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy.  The Carters did not have an official stop in La Crosse, but they visited Prairie du Chien.  The president spoke about energy needs at the 3M company picnic, and jogged at the Prairie du Chien HS track.

In August of 1992, Bill Clinton and Al Gore came through Prairie du Chien and La Crosse on a bus trip after the Democratic convention.  Clinton spoke ar Copeland Park in La Crosse, near the Clinton Street bridge.

Gore apparently remembered that La Crosse trip when he won the Democratic nomination in 2000.  The day after the party convention in Los Angeles, Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman flew to La Crosse for a rally at Riverside Park. 

President Barack Obama made a speech at UWL in July of 2015, inside the Recreation Eagle Center.  The next year, Donald Trump spent a night on the campaign trail staying at the Charmant Hotel, yesterday in La Crosse.