"This is history"

The 32-vehicle motorcade consisted of nine motorcycles, five Cincinnati Police cruisers, a Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy, a Kentucky State Patrol car, an ambulance and the "package" -- 15 Secret Service vehicles, support vans and the presidential limousine.

It sped out of Indian Hill as quickly as it came, greeted by somewhat smaller crowd.

Tammy Barnes, a stay-at-home mom from Montgomery, brought her two children to catch a glimpse of the president at the Madeira-Sycamore Township line.

"They don't know history, but this is history," she said, as 8-year-old daughter Maria struggled to wave a flagpole as tall as she was. "We're at war, and people need to support him and support our troops."