Subscribe
President Nixon and Spanish leader Generalissimo Francisco Franco ride in a car together.

(Red Grandy/Stars and Stripes)

Madrid, Spain, Oct. 2, 1970: President Nixon and Spanish leader Generalissimo Francisco Franco are accompanied by Franco’s mounted escort as they ride from Madrid’s Barajas Airport to Moncloa Palace. A crowd of an estimated 1.5 million people greeted Nixon as he arrived in the city midway through a trip that also took him to Italy, Yugoslavia, Britain and Ireland.

Looking for Stars and Stripes’ historic coverage? Subscribe to Stars and Stripes’ historic newspaper archive! We have digitized our 1948-1999 European and Pacific editions, as well as several of our WWII editions and made them available online through https://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com/

Sign Up for Daily Headlines

Sign up to receive a daily email of today's top military news stories from Stars and Stripes and top news outlets from around the world.

Sign Up Now