Presidential Travel
Through the course of our country's history many things have changed such as the presidents and their form of transportation. Civilization has broadened the types transportation through the decades. The use of transportation has furthered our country's ability to communicate with each other and many other countries. The president's travel started out with an uncomfortable horsedrawn carriage and has escalated to a giant Boeing 747 jumbo jet with all the amenities of the White House. Today the only conflict with the president's transportation is the price. From President Washington all the way to President McKinley, the president was free to come and go as he pleased because there were no secret service agents. Since the nation's poor roads made for long uncomfortable trips, the president hardly ever went on long excursions away from Washington. When George Washington had to make long trips, he rode in a closed carriage, pulled by a team of fast horses, which were exchanged on each leg of the trip. Andrew Jackson was criticized for riding in elegant carriages which made people feel that he was forgetting the American ideals. The use of horses led to the death of William Henry Harrison during his inauguration. H
3. Hartman, Phil. The Truman Cars. Chicago, IL: Independence Press, 1989 e was given a nice stagecoach to ride in, but he chose to ride on his favorite horse. He rode to the capitol in the cold weather and gave a two hour inaugural address and through this, he picked up pneumonia and died. Harrison was also the first president to ride a train, although he never knew it! He was transported to his final burial on the rail! It was not until Howard Taft's administration that money was appointed for presidential transportation. The Presidents have been mobile in some fashion throughout the history of our country. They used whatever mode of transportation they had at that time and got to experience the transportation of the future. When the use of the plane started, it increased our diplomatic contact with other countries. Air Force One stands as a trade mark for what so many people want such as being "free", and living in a democratic government. Presidential transportation has indeed increased the president's ability to communicate within the country and improve our relations with other countries.
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