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- From: pierce@CS.UCLA.EDU (Brad Pierce)
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- Subject: Not even a glimpse of the real world
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- Date: 7 Nov 92 01:11:22 GMT
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- According to Robert Shnayerson, "Welcome, Mr. President", _Travel
- Holiday_, November 1992, pp. 70-77, 100-102, 110:
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- "There is the unappeasable paranoia of the Secret Service. In the
- old days, presidents could at least glimpse the real world. The
- Coolidges often strolled outside the White House, shopping and
- chatting with their neighbors. Harry Truman was a demon walker, a
- familiar sight on Constitution Avenue. Today's presidents can't
- escape their protectors.
-
- "George Bush loves to travel. He's convinced that his frequent trips
- away from the White House (averaging 100 days a year) allow him to
- 'continually rediscover the miracle of America's abundance.' But
- those trips require more than a few travel companions. The
- president can't leave town without being convoyed by as many as 150
- aides and Secret Service agents, a fleet of jetliners, helicopters,
- armored limousines, chase cars, and so forth, at a cost that
- apparently exceeds the $923,000 yearly White House travel budget by
- many millions, much of it hidden in various military budgets."
-