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May 25th, 2008

Visit the Floating White House in Jack London Square

The USS Potomac was a 165-foot Coast Guard cutter before it was commissioned by the US Navy in 1936.  The ship was used by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as his presidential yacht, and to this day it is affectionately referred to as the “floating White House.” 
FDR hated to fly, preferring to travel by [...]

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