Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate, Richard Nixon went on with every sign of serenity in being President, doing business as usual and assuming an above-it-all posture. Indeed he appeared as isolated as ever, twice going out with only a few aides for Potomac cruises oh the presidential yacht, the Sequoia. For the moment, he seemed in no mood to explain himself more fully to the public, as some of his supporters had suggested...
...would like D.A. Lunan to know that in 1920 Guglielmo Marconi told my father, Admiral Count Millo, that he was sure he had intercepted intelligent signals from out of space on the radio station of his yacht Electra...
...that time there were no other radio stations on earth, except the ones Marconi had started in England and North America and the one on his yacht...
...Brandt visit had some lighter moments. The Chancellor slipped off for some fishing aboard the U.S. Naval Academy commandant's yacht. The only catch was a small rockfish landed by a U.S. protocol officer. The next day, when Nixon received him at the White House, Brandt complained: "There is only one fish in the Chesapeake Bay." Nixon, who had delivered his traumatic Watergate speech the night before, was in an effusive, bantering mood. To the delight of photographers, Nixon took Brandt by the arm several times to change his position "so we will have very good pictures...
...however, Tolbert toured his capital in a Volkswagen instead of the Tubman Cadillac, and he showed up for the swearing-in ceremony in an open-neck, short-sleeved safari suit instead of the Tubman top hat. He also got rid of his predecessor's $2,000,000 yacht...