Word: jetstars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made three trips to Viet Nam, plans to return there to share Christmas dinner with men of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, the outfit he commanded in Korea. "What we are doing there," he says, "is fighting an island campaign on a land mass." Last week Johnson boarded his JetStar for a one-day visit to the Army's biggest training center, Fort Jackson, in the piney uplands of South Carolina, where 19,655 men are being taught to fight...
...like suit: that is always held vacant for him when he is in Augusta. A team of heart specialists was summoned, including Dr. Thomas Mattingly of Washington, who had treated Ike in 1955. Mattingly and Ike's son John were whisked down to Georgia in a White House JetStar...
...Major General Chester V. (Ted) Clifton, military aide to President Johnson as he was to President Kennedy, is retiring from the Army even though he is only 51. Succeeding him will be Air Force Major James U. Cross, 40, pilot of the President's JetStar since February...
...blue and white U.S. Air Force JetStar from the special White House squadron touched down at San Isidro airbase, 9½ miles east of battle-torn Santo Domingo. In the city's rebel stronghold, one of Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deńó's leftist advisers brightened visibly at the news. "Ah," he asked eagerly, "Johnson has come...
...three-day tour of politicking and party fund raising in the Mid west, President Johnson landed at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport in a ten-passenger Air Force JetStar. Where was Air Force One, the giant, four-jet Boeing liner the President usually rides? Well, explained an aide, on purely political trips like this one the Air Force bills the Democratic National Commit tee for presidential transportation. The tab for Air Force One is $2,350 an hour, for the JetStar only...