2 The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, December 4, 1962 Kennedy and His Money-Tribune Exclusive Care for President Comes H would have to budget the enee at upward of 10 mil- | symbols of power. and comfort. Apparently Americans want it that way. He requested an extra $200,000 a year for Secret Service travel, but Congress allowed only about half of that. Water-borne transport is available via Navy cabin cruisAn office staff of 270 per- ers assigned to the White sons with a yearly payroll of House, the Honey Fitz and a Be 545, 000 surrounds the Presi- smaller boat. Sailors and maintenance run about $100,000 ais | A FLEET The beloved mansion and its TO MAINTAIN the grounds and staff the mansion’s domestic chores require 72 people at a cost of $700,000 annually. Any President —Associated Press Wirephoto Dean Rusk ... One of three jets available for his use. uses Serv- To protect the President and his house costs in excess of two million dollars a year. Lyndon B. Johnson ... Vice president rides in Boeing. telegraph in 1878. The major flowering of presidential trappings has taken place in the last three decades. The White House airplane and mountain retreat were added by Franklin D. Roose. velt, expanded staff personnel by Harry S Truman, helicopters and jet planes by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Camp Kennedy David, be seldom |—e the rustic : President Eisenhower. While plain, this mountain camp has all the conveniences and requires a sizable units of Marines and Navy pensonnel to operate it. The ieee Building. “telephones and may retreat in the Catoctin Moun-|Be —Associated Press. Wirephoto Congress this spring increased the 170 White House policginey to 250 officers and of these shipped or driven about the country when the President travels. This job has now been shiftPark OF White House|} limousines is rented from De-|— troit automobile companies at|= a cost of $500 a year per car. |B Soome of the cars are quite|— fancy. One_ presidential vehiclelp has a bubble top for trips out- |} side Washington. The Secret |— Service has specially designed |B autos to afford maximum |B protection of the President in crowds. 18 and seven-tenths acres of grounds in downtown Washington are, of course, priceless as national properties, but going real estate prices indicate it may be valued in the neighborhood of 40 million dollars. ed to the National ice. iE deur is of Mr. Kennedy’s asking, the White House is showing another small cost increase under his administration for maintenance of the mansion, and there is no reason to think it will shrink under any future president. sy WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — A business concern charged with care and feeding of the President of the United States The cost of all this is almost impossible to allocate, since the helicopters have other duties besides trans- , porting the President. OR wii 7 rive in threes to airlift the |i presidential party. The Marine executive squadron of whirlybirds at Quantico, Va., has 65 officers and 300 enlisted men and the Army executive heli- |i copter outfit is similarly |B staffed. : ESA ELE PART By Fletcher Knebel © Register and Tribune Syndicate PRESIDENT Kennedy now cost, Chief James Rowley told enjoys — or frets under, de- a House committee this year, pending upon the mood — a since the jet’s speed gives: the S.S. less time to switch its men range of machines, grounds from city to city. and services that even a bilRowley said about 20 adlionaire like J. Paul Getty vance men are needed for a would find difficult to mainpresidential jet trip now in tain out of current income. contrast to four or five in the WHILE NONE of this gran- old days. SORT Editor’s Note: — Kennedy and: His Money is an intimate and accurate accounting of the President’s personal finance by a topranking Washington reporter. The following is the last installment of a seven-part series. @ ea eee Se Cae ica prefer their oe i El ke zi Sebi er Once a new presidential |By nt is mu I. service or convenience comes ca REP... H. RB. GROSS (R-| lion- dollar ob At Washineinto being, it seldom retires. Airport, Col. vainly objected, con- ton’s National | Iowa) There have been two striking James Swindal heads a presitending the new _ policemen exceptions. President LEisendential pilot’s office with a might be used to take care of clerical staff and a crew of 10 hower declined to use the presdential yacht, the Williams“the horses presently parked for the presidential plane. burg, and it was returned to at the White House.” the Navy. The Secret Service declines THE PRESIDEN? may use to make public the size of its any one of three Boeing 707 THE PRESIDENT’S private White House detail, but its jets of the 1254 Air Transport railroad car, the Ferdinand estimated to cost about one Wing which are also used by Magellan, was last used by million dollars a year in addi- Vice President Lyndon B. Mamie Eisenhower during tion to the $1,300,000 for the Johnson, Secretary. of State Ike’s first term. The car is now policemen. Dean Rusk and other high on display on the University of government officials. | Miami campus in Florida. JET TRAVEL adds to the The end. In addition there are a dozen propeller executive transports, one of which is always standing by for the 143 South Main ~— Dial EM 3-1511 | Be President’s use. — The Salt fake @ribune | governmen 55 free, but cohen he makes a political jaunt the Democratic National Committee reimburses the Treasury. FOR EXAMPLE, when he made a western swing, the Democratic committee sent a *|check to the Treasurer of the U.S., paying $2,350 an hour for the use of the jet. Marines and the Army alternate in supplying helicopters for the President. These take off from the White House back lawn, stirring a minor revolution in the shiny magnolia leaves, and _|carry the President to Camp David or Andrews Air Force Base for transfer to a trans{port plane. O PTERS usually ar- oP Gas ianea. ink 5, "4871, ar sued every morning by the KearnsTribune Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah. 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