Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week his hopes for a summer recess from conferences, official calls, paper work and Washington's weather finally materialized. Wearing his weariness with a jaunty and well-pressed air, he boarded the 244-ft. presidential yacht Williamsburg, set out on a dawdling, 18-day cruise into New England waters...
Luxury. Next morning as the Williamsburg moved up Chesapeake Bay in cheering sunshine, he slept until seven o'clock-shamelessly abandoning his habit of rising at 5:30. The morning after that, with the yacht moving north in the open Atlantic, he slept until nine...
...week gave him other chances to be plain Harry Truman, the man who lived in Independence, Mo. before he lived in the White House. On Memorial Day. after placing a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he slipped off for a family party on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. And at week's end he motored to Chestertown, Md. to receive another honorary LL.D. (his eighth) and to address the graduates of tiny, ancient Washington College...
...President wanted a change from the confining White House grind. He took a week's cruise aboard the yacht Williamsburg...
Next day, he was up at 4 a.m., in time to watch the dawn patrol take off. Through the long morning and most of the afternoon he missed no part of the show. That evening the President was back aboard the Williamsburg, poring over a batch of administrative work...