Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided on making it long before he went back to Independence for the holidays. There he had mulled it over while visiting his family. It was written, with the help of six advisers and speech writers, on a four-day Potomac River trip on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. It was revised for the sixth time on the day of delivery...
Back from Missouri, Harry Truman was soon aboard the Presidential yacht Williamsburg for a four-day cruise down the Potomac and in Chesapeake Bay. This was not the poker-and piano-playing sort of outing the President likes. The President was hard at work...
After the Army-Navy game, where onetime Artillery Captain Truman was officially neutral but personally rooting for the Army, the President took the club members on the first trip of his new yacht Williamsburg. They cruised overnight, ate wild rice and curry, came back next day under sunny skies...
...Williamsburg...
...carpeting in the lounge, beige in the messroom. The presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free to give her any name he chooses, but the Navy thinks Williamsburg a "nice Colonial name" and hopes it will stick...