Reality Check-Presidential Travel
Want to know if someone voted against the President? Just see if they manifest outrage at every travel expense, real or imagined.
From various sources-The truth. Beats distant foreign bureaus anyway.
George Bush went to India to sign a controversial nuclear agreement. What did that trip cost? Hard to find. But the article shows the scope of the entourage etc.
SNIP-Barack Obama’s trip to India Nov 6-9 will be the sixth by a US president since Dwight D Eisenhower became the first to come visiting more than 50 years ago. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W Bush were the other US presidents - in that order - to visit the
country.
Q&A: Author on U.S. Presidential Jet Air Force One
David Braun
National Geographic News
May 29, 2003
White House correspondent Ken Walsh has flown on Air Force One more than 200 times. He talks about his book, Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes, and what he has learned about the aircraft and those who used it for political, diplomatic, and personal ends.
List of international trips made by the President of the United States
en.wikipedia.org