California: Richard Nixon

Vacaville's Nut Tree, a famed tourist site that has been recast into a more commercial vein in recent years, has hung a series of banners that highlight celebrities who have visited in the past.

One of the banners, however, celebrates "Gov. Richard Nixon, 1962," which doesn't quite square with history. Then-Vice President Nixon lost the presidential election to John Kennedy in 1960. then returned his native California and ran for governor against incumbent Democrat Pat Brown in 1962, only to lose again and declare, famously,to reporters that "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference and it will be one in which I have welcomed the opportunity to test wits with you.