Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, after tramping through the Capitol, taking a little trip on the presidential yacht Williamsburg, and turning down an invitation to a reception by the Missouri Society, the ladies and their hostess were ready to call it a mutually satisfying experience.* The ladies had reminded Bess Truman of Independence. For months to come, they would remind Independence of Bess Truman. They had played bridge just once...
Recollection of a Past. That afternoon Churchill was in Williamsburg, the colonial town which John D. Rockefeller Jr. has carefully restored, even to the colonial façade on the A. & P. store. It proved a dangerous expedition back into the historical past. He and Eisenhower had climbed into an 18th-Century coach when the horses, frightened by the photographers' flash bulbs, suddenly plunged and reared. Women screamed. Negro drivers grabbed at the reins. Eisenhower solicitously grasped Churchill's arm. Churchill, outwardly unmoved, puffed on his cigar, occasionally doffed his hat and gave his V-sign...
After two days in Washington, Harry Truman was ready for another change of scene. He went off for a cruise on the Williamsburg, but not just to revel in the first signs of spring in the wooded hills along the Potomac. With him went his three White House secretaries, his labor adviser, John R. Steelman, and a pile of official reports...
...Took a threeday, Potomac rest cruise on the White House yacht Williamsburg -a consolation prize for the Florida visit with Winston Churchill which he had to miss because of the steel crisis...
...yacht Williamsburg three weeks ago, President Truman looked at long strings of figures supplied by Budget Director Harold D. Smith. There in neatly rounded numbers was the billion-dollar mathematics of what it would cost for the U.S. Government to stay in business after having run in the red for 16 years and built up a $275,000,000,000 debt...