Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese textiles. Kissinger's deputies were aghast, and Baker suspected that the Secretary of State would call Air Force One to have the offensive language deleted from the President's speech. Baker arranged to be notified if Kissinger tried such a ploy. When word came, Baker called the plane too. Arguing again for the President's political interests against China's hurt feelings, Baker had the lines reinserted. "A few weeks later," Baker says, "when I met Henry for the first time in a State Department receiving line, he greeted me with one of those looks of his and said...
Even so, Baker didn't win them all. Besides selecting Dan Quayle, which appears to have been a Bush solo, the candidate often free-lanced by adopting a nonconfrontational technique. "Baker would call him on the plane and get him to change some line or another," says a Baker associate. "Bush would say, 'O.K., Jimmy, right,' and then go and do what he wanted to do anyway...
...maintenance record for the plane, powered by four Pratt & Whitney jet engines, was not yet available, Peck said...
There is no ejection system on the plane, built in 1963, said Peck...
...crashed Oct. 11, 1988, at Wurtsmith Air Base near Oscoda, Mich. That plane, also based at Sawyer, crashed and burst into flames on landing, killing six and injuring...