This visit by the VP wasn’t just any old tourist stop. Nixon and his daughters arrived to help dedicate the new groundbreaking Monorail system that had just been installed, according to Mental Floss. Disney then offered the family a ride on the Monorail before it fully opened to the rest of the public. Nixon and his daughters, along with Disney himself, boarded the Monorail car, and the driver, Bob Gurr, was told to take off. This should have been fine, but there was one problem. The train left both Disneyland security and the Secret Service on the platform. In effect, the Monorail had run off with the vice president of the United States and his children.

An extremely nervous Gurr finished one lap around Tomorrowland and was about to pull the train back into the station when Nixon’s daughters cried out that they wanted to go around again. According to Walt Disney Family Museum, Disney then told Gurr to “give ’em another ride.” So instead of stopping at the platform, the driver followed orders and went around again, this time with Secret Service agents chasing the train and trying to find a way to get on. Both Disney and Nixon found this highly amusing because, according to Bob Gurr, “the [vice] President is always trying to escape the Secret Service.” So while Walt Disney was not some super-secret double agent looking to take down the American government, he did manage to help Vice President Nixon ditch his security detail and have a good laugh in the process.