Word: afternoon
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...this trip was hardly minimal, when you consider the big military cargo jets, Air Force One, the Marine choppers, Secret Service Suburbans, as well as dozens of rental cars and law-enforcement vehicles brought in from hundreds of miles around. The great mechanized force was on display Saturday afternoon at the West Yellowstone airport, as three helicopters preceded Obama's own Marine One, to the tarmac where Air Force One was waiting. After the national traveling White House press corps embarked from one chopper and boarded Air Force One, the President and his family landed, and walked to their...
This precarious moment - early on a Tuesday afternoon - I could not be more unconcerned that my room reservation has been screwed up. In this city hurt hardest by recession, partly because it built too many hotel rooms, I smile at the man behind the desk, sure that I am about to be upgraded to a presidential suite. Then I'm told there are no more rooms of any kind available at The Hotel. When I go to meet a friend by the pool at the Mandalay Bay, it's too crowded to find chairs. All the price-cutting has succeeded...
Still, considering the buildup to this weekend's town-hall meetings (the President has one more, on Saturday afternoon in Grand Junction, Colo.), the proceedings within were civil. Outside the hangar, angry vocal exchanges erupted, but no one got physical. (Read a story about Montanans gearing up for Obama's visit...
...miles, into the mountains, to land at the Big Sky Resort, the luxury ski and vacation-home development founded by a native son, broadcaster Chet Huntley, nearly 40 years ago. From Big Sky, the First Family will visit Yellowstone National Park before flying off on Air Force One Saturday afternoon to Grand Junction...
...lawyers. "I think our version is going to be that they just didn't do their job that day," Babcock said. It is a tactic that Neal Manne, representing the Texas Defender Service, rejects as a "sideshow" designed to deflect from the real issue - Judge Keller's actions that afternoon...