President Donald Trump's concerns about Air Force One seem less focused on safety and security and more on size and opulence.

On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman signed a comprehensive National Security Act that had been crafted by the Republican-led Congress in the aftermath of World War II. Truman signed the ...

Truman spoke with the pilot of his personal plane, the Sacred Cow. The trip would be risky in such rough conditions, Truman was told, but it could be made. Bad weather or not, Truman was going ...

“And, so, it’s a blessing to be able to actually walk onto ‘the set,’ to walk into Harry Truman’s presidential stateroom aboard the ‘Sacred Cow,’ which carried him to the United ...

Though officially named “The Flying White House,” the new presidential aircraft became better known by its nickname, the “Sacred Cow.” President Harry Truman used the Sacred Cow as his ...

When the Sacred Cow landed at Kansas City he rode off to ... and drove the 20 slushy miles to Mrs. Truman’s neat, cream-colored bungalow. Both the President and his mother brightened as he ...

Though officially named “The Flying White House,” the new presidential aircraft became better known by its nickname, the “Sacred Cow.” President Harry Truman used the Sacred Cow as his ...