In this White House photo from September 1963 in the Nelson Collection, presidential aide Arthur Schlesinger (l), President John Kennedy, and Sen. Gaylord Nelson (r) walk from the Marine One presidential helicopter upon arrival in Superior, Wisconsin. The group toured the Apostle Islands lakeshore and Kennedy gave a speech that was televised nationally. This image was used widely by Nelson staff and regional news media. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1942, Gaylord Nelson was drafted into the U.S. Army. After World War II ended, he returned to his native state and to politics, the profession he was bred to pursue. His great-grandfather was a founding member of the Republican Party. His father was a mayor. When Gaylord was nine, his dad took him to hear Progressive Party firebrand Robert M. La Follette campaign from the back of a train. On their way home, the boy's father asked him if the experience had made him want to go i