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- <text id=90TT2311>
- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: The Presidency
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 53
- American Notes
- THE PRESIDENCY
- As for the Almonds...</hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Twenty months behind schedule and costing taxpayers $133
- million, the latest version of Air Force One was shown off last
- week. "If the President wants to go anywhere, and I mean
- anywhere, this ship is ready," says an Air Force spokesman.
- </p>
- <p> Demands that the Boeing 747 be equipped with the latest
- security gizmos delayed delivery of the gleaming blue-and-white
- plane. It carries 19 television sets and more than 80
- telephones. Communications gear will permit the President to
- grab information from satellites or to communicate with
- submarine commanders. The plane (the second one will be ready
- next June) replaces the Boeing 707s in use since 1962. The
- President's quarters include an office that converts to a
- medical emergency room and a dining room. It flies 7,000 miles
- nonstop and, with aerial refueling, can stay aloft nearly
- three days.
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- </body>
- </article>
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