Six men who served as U.S. presidents have spoken in the fieldhouse. Herbert Hoover gave a campaign speech on October 28, 1932, before losing to Franklin Roosevelt. On September 9, 1952, candidate Dwight Eisenhower told a packed fieldhouse he was running because he could not watch the country become "the prey of fear-mongers, quack doctors, and bare-faced looters," and on October 15, 1954, President Eisenhower asked farmers to help maintain a Republican congress. Less than a month earlier, on September 23, 1954, Richard Nixon spoke as vice president, trying to rally Republicans before the midterm elections. Gerald Ford addressed the Indiana Broadcasters Association on April 22, 1976. And Bill Clinton (November 6, 2005) and George H.W. Bush (March 2, 2006) came to help the University celebrate its 150^th birthday.

Click on the video above to hear Joe Gentry '86 discuss the visit by President Barack Obama on primary election day in 2008.