Word: yachtless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she is commissioned, in about two months, the Williamsburg will be the sixth in her line. In the Republic's first struggling century, U.S. Presidents went yachtless. But in 1893, as the head of a rising naval power, Grover Cleveland took to cruising aboard the gunboat Dolphin. McKinley sailed in the Sylph, and by the time Roosevelt I took over the hefty (2,690-ton) Mayflower, a yacht was considered standard office equipment for a President...
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