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...their three children. Exempted from the budget is Trump's fancy transportation, which is up for sale: his $30 million yacht, the 282-ft. Trump Princess (he says he wants $115 million for it); his $8 million, French-built Super Puma helicopter; and his $8 million personal 727 jet...
Bush called in some of capitalism's and democracy's best "workers" and thinkers to show Gorbachev his enthusiasm and sincerity, which is what official entertaining has been about since John Adams opened up the house. The guests journeyed into Washington by corporate jet (Ford's chairman, Harold Poling) and Amtrak (Princeton's legendary Soviet expert George Kennan). Washington Post publisher Donald Graham could not get his car past the befuddled White House police, so he hoofed it up the sidewalk...
...winds lay calm on the Caribbean that evening, but 30,000 feet up in a White House jet the President's chief of staff was stirring a political storm. Returning to Washington from the inauguration of Costa Rica's new leader, John Sununu wandered to the rear of the Boeing 707 to schmooze with the traveling press. But first he shed his suit jacket, his title and his name. At his insistence, Sununu was now a "senior White House official...
Sununu does not think like Bush or any other let's-make-a-deal politician. He was trained as an engineer and a debater, and it shows. The engineer in him enormously enjoys the substantive questions of governance: What kind of pollution control is cost-effective? Which jet fighter technologies should we share with Japan? To such questions, Sununu brings voracious curiosity, a keen analytical gift and near total recall. Budget Director Richard Darman, Sununu's only intellectual peer in the Bush inner circle, points out that "Sununu is trained in fluid dynamics and has a good sense...
...attack bomber, but slash the purchase order from 858 to 620. This was the first public confirmation that Cheney assumes that the Navy will operate with twelve aircraft-carrier battle groups, two less than at present. It also means no longer relying on the % Navy's A-6 attack jet...