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To: KLP who wrote (494)	5/5/2003 1:47:51 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793964

Rocking out on Air Force One Air Force One: Does anything else conjure up a greater sense of power, elegance, and dignity? Certainly that's the public image. But our White House correspondent, Kenneth T. Walsh, reveals in Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes that it's often a different story inside the airborne White House. Consider President Bush's additions: satellite TV and a treadmill for sweaty workouts. Or former President Clinton, who strutted around in jeans and T-shirt while his staffers turned the 747 into a frat house. "Some of the staff people," said former chief of staff Leon Panetta, "would treat it as just another plane." He made it sound like a rock band's jet: too much booze, loud music, and garbage in the cabin. Even former President Bush had a weird story for the new book. During Clinton's trip to Israel for the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, Bush went into a staff cabin and stretched out on the floor to sleep. When he woke up, Jimmy Carter was right next to him, nose to nose. "Scary?" asked Bush. "No, but different."http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/whisphome.htm