Aircraft, trains, and steamboats: what presidents ride on

The US President cannot be met in economy class, such as the President of Latvia or Ukraine. The American president has a fairly large fleet of everything on which he can move, both domestically and outside the United States. Talks about it "Voice of America".

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The President travels with maximum comfort, since a lot depends on freshness of mind and state of health, the most important thing is control over the nuclear button. Let us remember that the United States is one of the two powers with the largest nuclear arsenal.

In this case, it is very difficult to separate the president’s work from his rest. It is unknown when they rest, since formally they work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without days off or vacations. There is a “Presidential Time” item in the president’s work schedule every day, and it is unknown what they are doing during this time. It is believed that during these few hours he thinks, reflects, talks.

The President travels all transport as “Number One” - plane, helicopter, car, even train. Don't underestimate their comfort. These are very good, specially equipped cars with everything you need. Here he can sleep, shower and be in complete comfort. From films we know that the plane even allows you to survive during a nuclear war.

It is worth noting that the president flies on two planes. He flies on one, but the second flies nearby in complete readiness to take him aboard.

After the September 11 attacks, an option was added to the plane, thanks to which the president can go live directly from the plane.

How did the first US presidents travel

Interestingly, the first presidents practically did not travel. It was believed that the president should sit at his desk and work, and not be distracted by different trips.

Traveling outside the United States was considered especially dangerous. The Americans were afraid that the Europeans would be able to bribe him, deceive him and America would suffer. Some managed to combine work and travel, for example, Theodore Roosevelt. This continued until the beginning of the 20th century, after which the presidents began to ride.

They traveled first by train. For the election campaigns, special train assemblies were assembled. They and vice presidents traveled around the country, staged rallies right at the railway stations.

The presidents had their own yachts. Franklin Roosevelt loved to travel on yachts.

Franklin Roosevelt made 20 international trips during his presidency. For information, he spent three presidential terms at the White House.

Truman, who spent two presidential terms - 5 trips.

Dwyde Eisenhower - 26 trips.

John Kennedy - 8 trips.

Lyndon Johnson - 11

Richard Nixon - 15

Gerald Ford - 7

Jimmy Carter - 12

Ronald Reagan - 25

George Bush Sr. - 26

Bill Clinton - 54

George W. Bush - 48

Barack Obama - 52.

Donald Trump is still 18.

It is interesting that the railway companies, which at that time were rich and were suspected of corruption schemes, sometimes deservedly, took upon themselves the payment for the presidents’ trips - the work of many people from different organizations. There was a suspicion that for this, the presidents could do something nice to them. For example, provide some contracts.

And also, the head of state has special people who are engaged in this. The president should not only think about this, not even remember.

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