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Thursday, December 2, 2021

The Presidential Yacht Sequoia (1933-1977)

 

Presidential Yachts

Presidential Yacht Sequoia (1977) 


Type of Activity

Presidential Transport

Location

Location

Naval Yard, Washington DC

Date of Activity

1880 to May 1977

Coordinates

38°53'51.2"N 77°02'20.9"W


Before there was Air Force One, there was the presidential yacht. Dating back to the 19th century, America’s chief executives utilized navy ships and other vessels for recreation and entertaining foreign dignitaries. Nearly a dozen different ships acted as the “Floating White House” between 1880 and 1977, when the last vessel was sold at auction. During that time, they were the scene of international diplomatic summits, congressional schmoozing, and the occasional Potomac River pleasure cruise.

The Presidential yacht “served an important purpose in enabling Presidents to escape the claustrophobic tension of the White House,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has written. It “provided a quiet sanctuary; it was handier than Camp David, easier for casual, informal discussions.”

Sherman, Grant, Lincoln, and Porter aboard the River Queen, 1865

Abraham Lincoln made use of a steamboat called the River Queen during the Civil War, but the first official presidential yachts date to the Gilded Age. Starting in 1880, America’s commanders in chief sailed aboard a series of Navy vessels including USS Dispatch, USS Dolphin and USS Sylph. In 1886, Dispatch famously ferried Grover Cleveland across New York Harbor for the dedication of the Statue of Liberty.

Presidential boating entered a new era in the early 1900s, when USS Mayflower took over as the chief executive’s official yacht. Unlike earlier vessels, which were relatively austere in their design, Mayflower was a luxury craft previously owned by real estate millionaire Ogden Goelet. Measuring some 275 feet from stem to stern, it boasted a crew of over 150 and had a sumptuous interior that included a 30-person dining table and bathtubs made from Italian marble.

This vessel was built as the yacht of Ogden Goelet, and was purchased by the Navy in 1898 for service as a gunboat during the Spanish-American war. The USS Mayflower is most famously associated with Theodore Roosevelt, who often used it for family vacation cruises along Long Island. A more official use came in August 1905, when Roosevelt hosted Japanese and Russian envoys aboard Mayflower as part of his attempts to mediate peace talks in the Russo-Japanese War. He would later win the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the conflict.

The Presidential Yacht Mayflower in early 1900

The Presidential Yacht Mayflower served as a presidential plaything for over two decades. Woodrow Wilson is said to have wooed his second wife Edith Bolling Galt during romantic jaunts aboard the ship, and Calvin Coolidge reportedly loved the yacht so much he stationed a Navy chaplain aboard so that he could take Sunday morning cruises without being accused of skipping church. Nevertheless, the ship’s opulence proved to be a sticking point with critics of presidential excess.

The Mayflower served as Presidential yacht until 1929, when President Hoover ordered the vessel decommissioned for economic reasons. The Mayflower was sold and reconverted to a yacht, but was taken into the Coast Guard during WWII as a patrol vessel. Postwar Mayflower was sold and secretly outfitted to carry Jewish refugees from Europe to Palestine. On 3 September 1948 she arrived at Haifa carrying the refuges from Exodus, a refugee ship which had been turned back from Palestine previously. Her subsequent fate is not recorded, but she probably ended her days.in a European scrapyard.

The Mayflower was the largest and stateliest of the presidential yachts, but it wasn’t the last. Hoover—a devoted fisherman—soon began making day trips on a wooden-hulled vessel called USS Sequoia, and he eventually grew so attached to it that he had it featured on his 1932 Christmas card. Franklin D. Roosevelt began his tenure with Sequoia, but later switched to USS Potomac, a 165-foot former Coast Guard cutter that included a special elevator to help the wheelchair-bound president move between decks.

Built as the Coast Guard patrol boat Electra in 1934, the USS Potomac was taken over by the Navy as a presidential yacht in 1935.

FDR occasionally utilized the USS Potomac for official business—it carried him to a 1941 meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill—but it was more frequently used for presidential leisure. In his book Sailor in the White House: The Seafaring Life of FDR, author Robert Cross writes that the USS Potomac provided Roosevelt with “an instant means of extricating himself from the confines of Washington. Roosevelt could escape to the open water, where he could do some politicking and thinking, or relax and entertain on deck with friends and advisors, or simply throw a fishing line overboard and patiently wait for a bite.” President Roosevelt enjoyed fishing and reading on the Potomac. On one memorable fishing trip in 1936, he caught kingfish, mackerel, groupers, and barracuda in the Bahamas.

USS Potomac in Oakland, CA.

In 1942 USS Potomac was condemned as unseaworthy due to added topside weight, and decommissioned in 1945, she served the state of Maryland as a fisheries vessel from 1946 to 1960. After periods as an inter-island ferry in the Caribbean, and as a floating museum dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was purchased by Elvis Presley in 1964 and donated to St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, TN. A series of owners followed, and in 1980 the yacht was seized on suspicion of drug-running. Soon thereafter she sank in her berth, was salvaged by the Navy, and was purchased by the Port of Oakland, CA. Potomac is now owned by the Association for the Preservation of the Presidential Yacht Potomac. She has been completely rebuilt and restored, and is normally docked at FDR Pier.

The Sequoia and USS Potomac served as the presidential yacht for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USS Williamsburg served as the presidential yacht for President Harry S. Truman and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. President Roosevelt preferred the protection that the steel of the Potomac offered over the wood of the Sequoia. Additionally, the Potomac was larger than the Sequoia and could accommodate more Secret Service members.

The USS Williamsburg served as presidential yacht from 1945 to 1953.

The Williamsburg served Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, though Eisenhower only made one voyage before having it decommissioned in 1953.

USS Williamsburg National Archives and Records Administration

The Williamsburg was given to the National Science Foundation and renamed Anton Bruun, after the famous Dutch marine biologist. The yacht was decommissioned in 1953 per the orders of President Eisenhower. Laid up from 1953 to 1962, she then served the National Science Foundation until damaged in a dry docking accident in 1968. She was subsequently sold to become a hotel/museum in New Jersey, but she was instead laid up. In 1993 she was sent to Genoa, Italy for conversion to a luxury cruise ship. However, these plans were never realized.

The Williamsburg has been rusting away at a dock in La Spezia, Italy, where it has sat since 1993.

The USS Sequoia served as the “floating White House” from President Herbert Hoover’s administration through President Jimmy Carter’s administration. The 104-foot-long yacht was designed by John Trumpy and built in 1925 by the Mathis Yacht Building Company in Camden, New Jersey. The vessel was purchased by the Department of Commerce on March 24, 1931, transferred to the Navy, and commissioned as the Sequoia for the president’s use.

Photo of the U.S.S. Sequoia, Presidential Yacht, from 1933
In 1933 she was acquired by the Navy as the presidential yacht. She served in this capacity until replaced by Potomac in 1936. Sequoia then served as the Secretary of the Navy's yacht until 1969, when she became a dual-use yacht for the President and other high-ranking government officials, replacing Williamsburg.

WHCA’s Role in supporting The Presidential Yacht Sequoia

The Naval Administrative Unit (NAU) a division of DCAU the administrative unit of WHCA oversaw the Naval personnel assigned to Sequoia . The Naval Administrative Unit (NAU) was stationed at the Old Navy Yard Bldg. 146  and only maintained the Presidential Yacht Sequoia this unit existed until July 1977 when President  Carter returned the Sequoia to the Navy for disposal.

As with all other official Presidential forms of transportation WHCA supported the Secret Service and White House Staff with communications, the Yacht was equipped with FM radio frequencies Baker/Charlie for the USSS, Sierra for Paging and Staff use, finally Y/Z for communications with the Presidential Motorcade. 

One of the duties of the WHCA radio group was to carry a pager one week at a time and would be dispatched to the yacht and test the radios prior the arrival of the President or any other authorized  user of Sequoia. When the Sequoia went out WHCA transportation would usually get a rush dispatch to take people to the Navy Yard. It was usually someone from the Radio Group and  it was always on short notice. 

The USCG had three chase boats codename Sharktail they were highly maneuverable, and they were the fastest boats on the river they were primarily used  to keep sightseers, and other watercraft a safe distance away from Sequoia while it was cruising the river.

The USSS code name for the Presidential Yacht Sequoia was Helmsman, and the USSS also had a follow follow-up boat, with the codename of Rockfish, the Rockfish was too slow for any chase boat activity. It was mainly used for training and to shuttle people on and off Sequoia when underway. 

One other ship assigned to Presidential support was a PT called the Guardian, also assigned to the Navy Yard. The Guardian had no code name that I can find and after the retirement of the Presidential yacht in 1977, the Guardian was transferred back to the Navy and was retired in 1988, being the longest serving PT boat in the Navy.

The Presidential Yacht Sequoia on the Potomac 22 November 1966.

Franklin D. Roosevelt installed an elevator in the 1930s to make the yacht more easily accessible for his wheelchair. Lyndon B. Johnson later replaced the elevator with a bar.

Recreation was also the main role of the presidential yachts during the administration of Harry Truman, who hosted floating poker games aboard Sequoia and the 243-foot USS Williamsburg. Dwight D. Eisenhower was more of a landlubber than his predecessors, but sea excursions became popular again in the 1960s, when Sequoia resumed its former role as the main presidential yacht. John F. Kennedy—who also utilized a yacht called Honey Fitz and a sailboat called Manitou—The presidential yachts offered a brief retreat from the White House for presidents and served as a setting for recreational and social activities. 

For example, on May 29, 1963, President John F. Kennedy celebrated his final birthday with a party aboard Sequoia with dinner and a cruise on the Potomac River.

As the longest serving of the executive yachts, Sequoia played host to several chapters in presidential history. The 104-foot vessel was a humbler affair than many of the other yachts, but the seclusion of its elegant, mahogany-paneled saloon made it an ideal location for sensitive political discussions. Harry Truman talked nuclear arms policy aboard the ship with the prime ministers of Britain and Canada. In the mid-1960s, Lyndon Johnson used yacht trips to hash out Vietnam strategy and lobby legislators to support his Great Society domestic reforms. “The Sequoia was a rostrum from which he was trying to persuade congressmen and senators,” former Johnson aide Jack Valenti said. LBJ also installed a liquor bar and enjoyed having movies projected on the main deck.

President Johnson entertains guests on the aft deck

The main bedroom in the Presidential Yacht U.S.S. Sequoia

Richard Nixon was undoubtedly the most the enthusiastic user of Sequoia. The 37th president reportedly made as many as 100 trips aboard the yacht, including one in which he met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to negotiate the SALT I nuclear arms agreement.

Richard M. Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev aboard the Presidential Yacht Sequoia

Near the end of his second term, Nixon also used Sequoia as a hideout from the controversies of the Watergate scandal. During one final cruise in August 1974, the embattled president reportedly informed his family of his decision to resign before retiring to the ship’s saloon, quaffing a glass of scotch, and playing God Bless America on the piano.

The ship’s dining room and piano

President Gerald R. Ford organized several informal meetings with his cabinet members to discuss economic policies and diplomatic meetings. on the Sequoia.

The age of the presidential yacht ended in May 1977.

That year, newly inaugurated Jimmy Carter ordered that Sequoia be offloaded in a public sale. Carter later noted that he was disturbed by the yacht’s $250,000 annual upkeep, but he was also following through on a campaign promise to dispense with the extravagance of the presidency. “Despite its distinguished career, I feel that the Presidential yacht Sequoia is no longer needed,” he wrote in a memo to his Secretary of Defense Since then, the yacht has been sold and acquired by several different owners. 

The Presidential Yacht Sequoia (1977)

Sequoia, though inactive and was in a state of disrepair, the yacht was once used as a floating museum and private charter boat, and still retains much of its presidential memorabilia. Unfortunately, this foundation went bankrupt in 1988 and the yacht lay derelict for nearly a decade. Eventually coming under the ownership of Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., 

On a barge going from VA to Belfast ME (2019)

The Sequoia’s current owner is Equator Capital Group, are in the process of restoring the yacht. When the Sequoias restoration is complete, Equator Capital Group plans to bring it back to Washington, D.C to serve as a venue for teaching American presidential history and promote conservation causes.

In the summer and fall of 2019, SEQUOIA was carefully loaded and barged from southern Virginia to Belfast, Maine where she will undergo a complete restoration by master boatbuilders French & Webb.

But the Sequoia, shrouded in plastic in a city-owned parking lot next to the Harbor Walk, is still waiting for the restoration to begin. The delay is due to the 2020 pandemic, according to Amanda Green, the office manager at French & Webb. Now, the company is waiting for a go-ahead from the ship’s owner to get things rolling, she said.

Today, Sequoia and Potomac are the only two former presidential yachts still in existence. Potomac went through several different owners after its presidential service—including Elvis Presley—and is now moored in Oakland, California.

In 1987,
Both the Sequoia, and the Potomac vessels were registered as National Historic Landmarks.

Friday, November 5, 2021

President Nixon’s Hydrofoil-Wolfhound (1972)

 

President Nixon’s Hydrofoil
Wolfhound a gift from Russia’s General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev


Type of Activity

Presidential Transport

Location

Location

Miami FL

Date of Activity

Aug 1972-Nov 1972

Coordinates

25°41′25″N 80°9′54″W / 25.69028°N 80.165°W / 25°41′25″N 80°9′54″W / 25.69028°N 80.165°W / 25°41′25″N 80°9′54″W / 25.69028°N 80.165°W / 25°41′25″N 80°9′54″W / 25.69028°N 80.165°W / 25°41′25″N 80°9′54″W / 25.69028°N 80.165°W / 25.69028°N 80.165°W 25.69028; -80.165

In May 1972, President Richard Nixon paid a head of state visit to the Soviet Union, during which he presented a modified Cadillac sedan to General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev, on behalf of the United States. Some three months later, in August, a reciprocal gift from General Secretary Brezhnev arrived on board a Russian merchant vessel at the port of Baltimore. The gift was a high-speed, soft-and salt-water traveling hydrofoil boat, Soviet Model 70.

I was at Key Biscayne when the Hydrofoil arrived in Miami and sent to the Coast Guard Station in Miami, Florida, which then provided water security and water transportation for the presidential retreat at Key Biscayne. Although the President did take several cruises during his visits to Key Biscayne the President preferred Bebe Robozo's houseboat the Coco Lobo. The unofficial codename for the Volga 70 Hydrofoil was Wolfhound and would be used whenever the Coast Guard or Secret Service needed to communicate with the Command Post at the Presidential compound. Baker/Charlie P-33's or HT-220's would be used to communicate while on a cruise with the President or on a maintenance trip. After several months of inactivity the Hydrofoil was deemed impactable for the presidents use. 

In November 1972, the White House staff decided that this boat could best be used in the general service of the federal government and transfer to the Coast Guard at Miami was authorized by H.R. Haldeman on October 16, 1972. The boat was subsequently put into service on November 8, 1972, and it remained in the Miami area until February 1977, when the Coast Guard reported it to the General Services Administration (GSA) as being excess to their needs.

The restored Volga 70 Hydrofoil

GSA’s Property Utilization and Donation Branch then authorized the transfer of the boat to the Fish and Wildlife Service, with initial utilization in Louisiana, but the service location was changed in June 1977 and the boat was brought to the Washington, D.C. area for use in security and surveillance work by an unspecified federal security agency. The hydrofoil remained in the Washington area until February 3,1982, when GSA authorized the Fish and Wildlife Service to dispose of it by donation to the Nebraska Agency for Surplus Property, with further and specific donation to the City of Ogallala, where it was used on Lake McConaughy, a “25 mile long, 4-mile-wide oasis on the Nebraska plain. “In April 1987, the City of Ogallala donated the hydrofoil to the Ogallala Chamber of Commerce which used it under the name of “Viktoria,” the name of Brezhnev’s wife, as a promotional vehicle on the lake. 

In 2005, the USS Aries Hydrofoil museum acquired President Nixon’s Volga and began restoring the craft. She has been returned to the original Paint scheme and undergone engine work. Currently she operational and flies very well.


Monday, October 25, 2021

Prologue About SFC John L Cross Jr and Blog-Revised

                                                 
                               "BEHIND THE SCENES:                                       EXPLORING THE WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY FROM 1965 TO 1974 AND BEYOND"

                               

by
SFC JOHN L CROSS


                                                             PROLOGUE                                                                            My Travels with the White House and WHCA   

In December of 1964, I was nearing the end of my time in the Army when I decided to re-enlist in order to attend Microwave Radio Repair School at Ft Monmouth, NJ. After completing my training, I was interviewed by the White House Communications Agency (WHCA), underwent a Polygraph examination, and a thorough background investigation before being ultimately selected to join WHCA in Washington, DC in November of 1965. My first assignment was at Camp David in Thurmont, MD, where I worked as a microwave repairman at a site called Cactus. I also worked at another microwave location called Cannonball. In March of 1967, I was transferred permanently to Mercersburg, PA, to serve as the NCOIC of Cannonball, where I was responsible for maintaining all the communications at the site and the general day-to-day maintenance of the facility.

During my time at Camp David and Cannonball, I traveled extensively both domestically and abroad to support the White House and the Secret Service. However, 1968 was perhaps the most challenging year for WHCA. This year began with the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and the ensuing race riots. Then, Robert Kennedy was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination, which prompted the Secret Service to assign protection to all candidates campaigning for their party’s nomination for the President and Vice President of the United States. WHCA was then assigned to provide communications for the Secret Service Protection Details. Later in the year, there was the Vietnam War protest at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and finally, the 1968 Presidential election. WHCA supported the Secret Service with all three Presidential candidates and three Vice Presidential candidates that year. Richard Nixon was elected, and the transition to a new President began.

Cannonball was closed in 1970, and I was assigned to the Western White House in San Clemente, CA. The Communications Contingency Team (CCT) was established and staffed with personnel from all the recently closed microwave sites. The CCT was designed to be a fast response unit that could provide communications for the White House anywhere in the world. We established a maintenance facility on the tarmac at the El Toro MCAS, with all our equipment palletized. This allowed us to load the equipment onto a transport vehicle at our front door for immediate departure to any designated location. The team was always on call, and we carried pagers so that we could respond immediately to any assignment. The San Clemente CCT supported the President at many official functions in and around Los Angeles and was also called upon to support the Vice President on numerous visits to Palm Springs and other locations in the western United States.

In 1972, my final assignment was at the Florida White House located in Key Biscayne FL. as the NCOIC of the Key Biscayne Compound, I was responsible for overseeing all the FM Communication permanently installed across southern FL at various sites. In addition, our Detachment was tasked with maintaining and repairing a UHF Radio Network that facilitated voice and data communications between the Key Biscayne compound and Walkers Cay Club in the Bahamas. This UHF system was primarily used by the President and the USSS during their visits to Grand Cay Island. Moreover, we installed FM radio service for the protective detail while they were on the island. Walkers Cay also housed the WHCA switchboard and Communication Center, which provided support for the White House Staff and Press Corps who stayed there while the President visited Grand Cay. 

While I was in the process of relocating my family to Florida, the infamous Watergate break-in occurred, which ultimately led to Richard Nixon's resignation as President. Soon after settling, I had to prepare to support the 1972 Republican Convention in Miami, which had been moved from southern California due to the threat of anti-war protesters disrupting the proceedings. President Nixon and Vice President Agnew were re-elected by a landslide, but Watergate soon began to erode their popularity. The House of Representatives held hearings that eventually led to the President's resignation, and Vice President Agnew also resigned from office for unrelated activities as the Governor of Maryland. This led to the appointment of Gerald R. Ford as the new Vice President and eventually the President of the United States. I was discharged just six months before the end of the Nixon Presidency, and Ford would later pardon him of all charges.

During my nine years with the White House Communications Agency (WHCA), I traveled extensively in the US and overseas, supporting two Presidents, two Vice Presidents, and key members of the White House Staff. I helped the Secret Service support all the national candidates during the 1968 and 1972 Presidential elections and participated in training and maintenance trips to sites and equipment permanently installed to support daily activities at Camp David, Cannonball, San Clemente, and Key Biscayne. I also participated in four major overseas trips, including President Nixon's historic trip to China.

Throughout my time with WHCA, I witnessed significant historical events, including the escalation of the Vietnam War, anti-war protests, the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the civil unrest at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the San Clemente Western White House, the historic trip to China, the Florida White House in Key Biscayne, the end of the Vietnam War, including the return of POW/MIA's, the Watergate break-in and cover-up, and the resignation of the Vice President and ultimately the 37th President of the United States.

Although many details have faded from my memory, there is still so much to document in these many pages. I am proud to have served as a member of the White House Communications Agency for over nine years and to have been a part of such significant historical events.


Military Service (1963-1974)
                     

Awards and Decorations

National Defense Service Medal

Good Conduct Medal 3rd award

Presidential Service Badge and Certificate

Meritorious Unit Commendation with Oak Leaf Cluster


Military Assignments

Fort Knox KY Basic Training (1962)

Co. E, 16th Bn., 5th Tng. Regt, U.S.A.T.C. Armor 

Jackson Park Nike Site (1962 – 1964)

Btry. C, 2nd Msl. Bn., 57th Arty Chicago 37, IL – 

Redmond WA Nike Missile Site (1964)

Btry. A, 4th Msl. Bn, 4th, Arty, Redmond WA

Jackson Park Nike Site (1964–1965)

Btry. B, 6 th Msl. Bn, 3rd Arty, Chicago IL

Microwave Radio training Fort Monmouth NJ (1965)

Co. D, US Army Signal School Training Center, Ft Monmouth NJ

                     The White House Communications Agency (1965-1974)                              Camp David Det.1 (1965-1967)

Cannonball Tower Site 2 (1967-1970)

San Clemente Communications Contingency Team (1970-1972)

Key Biscayne Communications Detachment (1972-1974)  

           

Presidential Support Trips

Lyndon B Johnson (LBJ) Support Trips                 Richard M Nixon Support Trips

28 Aug 66 to York PA-Dallastown Rally                    11 Jul 69 to Madrid Spain-New Delhi Trip 

05 Oct 66 to Anchorage AK-Manila PI Trip               12 Jul 69 to Adana Turkey-New Delhi Trip

06 Oct 66 to Tokyo Japan-Manila PI Trip                   31 Jul 69 to New Delhi India-New Delhi Trip

26 Oct 66 to Manila, PI-Manila Trip                           03 Aug 69 to Bangkok Thailand-New Delhi Trip

30 Oct 66 to Tokyo Japan-Manila PI Trip                   04 Aug 69 to Tokyo Japan-New Delhi Trip

01 Nov 66 to Chicago-Manila PI Trip                        28 Jul 70 to Los Angeles CA-Century Plaza

15 Mar 67 to Zandria Surinam-Punta Del Este Trip   30 Oct 70 to Anaheim CA-Convention Center

11 Apr 67 to Punta Del Este-Punta Del Este Trip       26 Mar 71 to Beverly Hills CA-Samuel Goldwyn

14 Apr 67 to Zandria Surinam-Punta Del Este Trip   30 Apr 71  to Camp Pendleton CA-1st Marine Div.

15 Apr 67 to San Antonio TX-Punta Del Este Trip   01 May 71 to Palm Springs CA-Annenberg Estate

                                                                                   15 July 71 to Burbank CA-NBC Studios

1968 Election Support Trip                                    29 Jul 71 to Santa Rosa CA-Bohemian Grove

21 Sep 68 to Atlanta GA-George Wallace                20 Aug 71 to Loma Linda CA-Medical Center

04 Oct 68 to Newark NJ-George Wallace                 28 Aug 71 to Santa Catalina Island-Mojo Cruise

07 Oct 68 to Raleigh NC-Spiro Agnew                     27 Nov 71 to Palm Springs CA-Eisenhower Med

24 Oct 68 to San Jose CA-Hubert Humphrey           04 Jan 72  to San Diego CA-National Shipbuilding

27 Oct 68 to Los Angeles CA-Hubert Humphrey     06 Jan 72  to San Clemente CA-Japan PM Sato

30 Oct 68 to Long Beach CA-Richard Nixon           20 Feb 72  to Agama Guam-China Trip

31 Oct 68 to Burbank CA-Richard Nixon                 29 Feb 72 to Honolulu HI-China Trip

03 Nov 68 to Anaheim CA-Curtis Le May                           

05 Nov 68 to Los Angeles CA–Nixon/Humphrey    
                                      
Vice Presidential Support Trips,                 Presidential Visits to San Clemente                                                                                                                                                  and Presidential Visits to Key Biscayne

Spiro T Agnew Support Trips                        San Clemente Visits and Side Trips                  
02 Dec 69 to New Orleans LA                           26 Jun 70 to 06 Jul 70- Los Angeles CA
23 Feb 70 to Phoenix AZ                                   24 Jul 70 to 03 Aug 70- Los Angeles CA  
19 Oct 70 to Tucson AZ                                     21 Aug 70 to 06 Sep 70-San Diego CA
31 Oct 70 to Newport Beach CA                       30 Oct 70 to 04 Nov 70- Anaheim CA
19 Nov 70 to Palm Springs CA                          05 Jan 71 to 14 Jan 71-Santa Catalina Island  
08 Feb 71 to Palm Springs CA                           26 Mar 71 to 4 Apr 71-Beverly Hills CA
05 Apr 71 to San Diego CA                                30 Apr 71 to 3 May 71-Palm Springs
09 Jun 71 to Los Angeles CA                             06 Jul 71 to 22 Jul 71-Burbank CA
27 Nov 1971 to Palm Springs CA                      21 Aug 71 to 3 Sep 71-Loma Linda CA
27 Dec 71 to Palm Springs CA                           24 Nov to28 Nov 71 to Palm Springs CA
19 Apr 72 to New Orleans LA                            02 Jan 72 to 08 Jan 72- San Diego CA
                      
Henry Kissinger Support Trip                         Trips to the Bahamas
13 Oct 71 to Hilo HI-Pre China Trip                   25 Jul 72 to Walkers Cay Bahamas-Maintenance                                                                       29 Aug 72 to Walkers Cay Bahamas-Maintenance
Key Biscayne FL Visits and Side Trips            13 Sep 72 to Walkers Cay Bahamas-Maintenance
22 Aug 72 to 24 Aug 72-1972 National Conv     03 Oct 72 to Walkers Cay Bahamas- Maintenance
08 Nov 72 to 12 Nov 72-Ocean Reef Club         31Oct 72 to Walkers Cay Bahamas- Maintenance
30 Nov72 to 04 Dec 72- Ocean Reef Club         11 Nov 72 to Key Largo FL-Ocean Reef Club
20 Dec 72 to Dec 26 72- Ocean Reef Club         30 Nov 72 to Walkers Cay Bahamas- Maintenance
12 Jan 73 to 18 Jan 73 - Ocean Reef Club          09 Dec 72 to Orlando FL- Equipment Repair
26 Jan 73 to 29 Jan 73- Grand Cay Visit             11 Dec 72 to Grand Cay Bahamas- Maintenance
16 Feb 73 to 18 Feb 73                                        17 Jan 73 to Walkers Cay Bahamas-Maintenance
22 Mar 73 to 26 Mar 73-Ocean Reef Club          06 Mar 73 to Walkers Cay Bahamas- Maintenance
20 Apr 73to 24 Apr 73-Grand Cay Visit              04 May 73 to Walkers Cay Bahamas-POTUS Visit
03 May 73 to 07 May 73-Grand Cay Visit          15 May 73 to Walkers Cay Bahamas-Maintenance   
26 May 73 to 28 May 73-Grand Cay Visit           22 May 73 to Walkers Cay Bahamas-Maintenance
08 Jun 73 to 10 Jun 73-Coco Lobo III                  26 May 73 to Grand Cay Bahamas-POTUS Visit
15 Jun 73 to 17 Jun 73-Coco Lobo III                  12 Jun 73 to Walkers Cay Bahamas-Maintenance
17Aug 73 to 20 Aug 73-Coco Lobo III                 26 Jun 73 to Walkers Cay Bahamas-Maintenance
04 Oct 73 to 07 Oct 73-Ocean Reef Club             12 Jul 73 to Grand Bahama Island Bahamas- Maint.
01 Nov 73 to 05 Nov 73-Coco Lobo III
16 Nov 73 to 20 Nov 73-Coco Lobo III              Nixon Family Support Trips
                                                                              9 Feb 73 to Jacksonville FL-Julie Nixon  
WHCA TDY Trips and Training                       12 Feb 73 to Jacksonville FL-Julie Nixon                                                                                                          
Cannonball-Microwave Duty                          Crate-Communications Rail Car
10 Jan 66 to 17 Jan 66- Mercersburg PA            20 Jul 66 to Harrisburg PA-Equipment Maintenance
07 Feb 66 to 14 Jan 66-Mercersburg PA            25 Jul 66 to Washington DC-Communications Test
28 Feb 66 to 7 Mar 66-Mercersburg PA                                
11 Apr 66 to 19 Apr 66- Mercersburg PA           Training/ Recruiting
16 May 66 to 23 May 66- Mercersburg PA         16 Jan 67 to Washington DC - Howard University
13 Jun 66 to 20 Jun 66- Mercersburg PA             26 Feb 67 to Washington DC– HF Radio
05 Jul 66 to 11 Jul 66- Mercersburg PA               17 Sep 67 to Lemoyne PA- AT&T 1A1 Key
01 Aug 66 to 08 Aug 66- Mercersburg PA           04 Aug 68 to El Paso TX– Ft Bliss Recruiting
06 Sep 66 to 12 Sep 66- Mercersburg PA            18 May 69 to Norfolk VA– Naval Station HF Radio
03 Oct 66 to 04 Oct 66- Mercersburg PA             09 Aug 70 to Thurmont MD–HF Radio console
12 Dec 66 to 19 Dec 66- Mercersburg PA            11 May 71 to Camp Pendleton CA- ORE
                                                                              19 Sep 71 to Chicago IL- Motorola Radio 
                                                                              14 Nov 71 to Washington DC - Linkcopex