Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech. He had 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...
Plans involving the construction of a boat house for the Harvard Yacht Club, either on the banks of the Charles nearby or in the Basin, are in preliminary stages now, according to David M. van Buren '46, commodore of the club...
...partners. (Much of the credit, he felt, was due an 80-year-old Cree Indian named Jake whom he considers his good-luck charm.) This time Prospector Campbell invested in more durable things than wheat futures. Among his new acquisitions: two planes (with a private pilot), a fully equipped yacht, a saxophone (which his wife abhorred "because it makes the wolves howl"), and the first player piano to be brought into the Red Lake district, complete with 500 rolls of music. Then Mrs. Campbell hid the mail-order catalogue because "it held too many attractions for George...
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...