President George H.W. Bush — back before he was using his middle initials — visited Utah three times during his one term in office. And all three times he was campaigning for a second term he didn’t win.
Sept. 8, 1991 • President Bush flew into the Salt Lake International Airport, where he was greeted by a crowd estimated at 7,000. He met with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; visited patients at Primary Children's Medical Center, and later attended a $300-a-plate fundraising dinner.
He ducked out of that dinner early, joking that the vegetable course was disguised broccoli — and his disdain for that vegetable had become well-known.