Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pink sport shirt and shaded by a white pith helmet, he nevertheless found fishing a good way to sit and loaf. Loafing was his chief objective and he got a lot of it done. He kept his weight level by frequent swims off the fantail of his yacht Williamsburg (he uses a side stroke to keep his glasses dry). And he managed to do almost no work. He signed a few documents, put off until this week everything that required anything more than his signature...
Then the State Department got busy on the newer developments. President Truman was cruising aboard the Williamsburg in southern waters; Secretary of State Byrnes was absent at the Paris treaty conference. Acting Secretary Dean Acheson got on the phone to Byrnes; Byrnes and Truman talked with each other over a transatlantic circuit. Lights burned late in the Hotel Meurice, Paris headquarters of the U.S. delegation. Through a conference session in the Luxembourg Palace, Jimmy Byrnes ignored the speakers, sat scribbling shorthand notes...
Harry Truman's vacation on the Presidential yacht Williamsburg had been going badly. In Narragansett Bay he had encountered wind, cold and rain. Then he had found himself struggling against the nameless indignities of seasickness. As the yacht rolled southeast on her hunt for the sun he had bribed his queasy stomach with seasick pills. But now, in the harbor of Hamilton, Bermuda, the deck was solid, the water blue, and there were white coral, pastel walls and green foliage ashore...
...week's end, when the Williamsburg moved into Narragansett Bay, he was sporting a two-day beard. He had a second sensation in reserve. When the yacht tied up at the Quonset (R.I.) Naval Air Base, he broke out a cap which made shoreside loiterers blink-a white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken...
Next day he received a selected knot of Rhode Island politicians aboard the yacht, went ashore to visit the Naval War College at Newport. Then, after waiting out a Northeaster, the Williamsburg headed seaward again...