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...search for the yacht went badly. Neither the Navy nor the Customs Service could find what the White House was looking for. The President's men had their eye briefly on John Wayne's old converted minesweeper, but the price was $2 million; the President had been sort of hoping that someone would, well, just donate a boat, accepting the nation's thanks and the tax deduction. No one volunteered, so, for now, the White House has given up trying to find a presidential yacht on which Ronald and Nancy Reagan can float down the Potomac...
...problem would never have come up, of course, if Jimmy Carter had not sold the Sequoia in one of his paroxysms of anti-imperial budget cutting. Carter got only $286,000 for the old yacht that had served American Presidents since Hoover, but it was the symbolism of the thing that mattered. Carter took the oath of office in a $175 business suit and spurned a limousine in order to lead his Inaugural parade up Pennsylvania Avenue on foot. He went for an image of blameless frugality, a presidency in a cardigan sweater: no pomp, just folks. He even brought...
...Santos Dumont Airport, where he was dumped into the luggage compartment of a rented Learjet. He was then flown 1,529 miles to the northeastern Brazilian city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon, and hustled aboard the How Can I II, a luxury yacht chartered in Antigua two weeks earlier. His abductors ordered the two-man charter crew to set a course back toward the Caribbean...
...four-day voyage ended unexpectedly when the yacht developed engine trouble southeast of Barbados. Escorted into Bridgetown harbor by the Barbados coast guard, the still-groggy Biggs and his mysterious abductors were transferred to a Bridgetown prison for questioning, leaving Barbados officials to puzzle over their bizarre story. The unscheduled stop meant big problems for Biggs: once out of extradition-proof Brazil, the self-confessed thief faced for the first time since he escaped from London's Wandsworth Prison in 1965 the prospect of being haled back to Britain and up to 30 years in jail...
Though he cared nothing for opera, Onassis immediately basked in Maria's artistic fame. She said goodbye to Meneghini and sailed away on Onassis' yacht Christina to a life of luxury and narcissism. She got her TMWL (To Maria With Love) bracelet-just as Onassis' first wife Tina had received a TTWL and his second, Jacqueline Kennedy, would get a TJWL...