Posted on 03/01/2024 8:15:08 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A retired Marine One helicopter frequently used during George H.W. Bush’s presidency completed the trip to its final destination Tuesday, when it was delivered to College Station to be put on display at Bush’s presidential library and museum.
The massive aircraft — it weighs 4.65 tons and is 72 feet long — was trucked to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum grounds on Texas A&M University’s west campus. The sight of the helicopter being lifted off the truck and moved into its permanent home in the soon-to-open Marine One/4141 Locomotive Pavilion drew a small crowd of onlookers, as well as staff from the George & Barbara Bush Foundation.
Andrew Card, the foundation’s CEO and a former Secretary of Transportation under Bush, said the president had a “particular affinity” for Marine One. “It usually meant he was going someplace where he wanted to go,” Card said, adding that it sometimes allowed Bush to briefly escape the burden of the presidency, whether it be for a quick trip out of Washington, D.C., or a respite at Camp David.
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Hmm....rather disturbing.
hmmmmmm.
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