President Richard Nixon was an Angels fan and Gene's guest at many of the California Angels baseball games.

Champion, World's Wonder Horse

Lindy Champion (b. 1927 – d. undetermined)

Sorrel-colored
4 white stockings
Oval topped blaze with a black dot on his nose
Gelding
Registered Tennessee Walking Horse
Made personal appearances
Born May 20, 1927, on the day of Charles Lindbergh's historic flight from New York to Paris, France
Highlights: made aviation history as the first horse to make a transcontinental flight from Burbank to New York; made 1939 personal appearance in Britain

Research assistance provided by author Petrine Mitchum.