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Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to fly in a powered plane in 1910, after he had left office.
In the century since then, the presidential aircraft has evolved into one of the sophisticated planes in the air.
The commander-in-chief is more than just an American leader, the office is of global importance.
As the Leader of the Free World, the American president has to be able to travel all over the US and around the world safely. So of course, the United States Air Force has a special plane for the president. This wasn t always the case, however.
What we call Air Force One isn t the name of the plane, it s the callsign for any plane the POTUS happens to be on (so yes, if President Joe Biden went Groupon skydiving in a decades-old rust bucket Cessna, that plane would be Air Force One for a brief, shining moment).
Biden’s Court-Packing Commission Unconcerned With the ConstitutionBy Jordan Sekulow16209143400001620914340000
Packing the Supreme Court would be one of the most radical acts ever carried out by a U.S. President. In fact, not since 1937 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to add six seats to the Supreme Court has any President seriously considered this far-reaching act. When FDR first tried this, he faced intense opposition, even from a Democrat-controlled Congress. But President Biden recently issued an Executive order establishing the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, which will seek to provide an analysis of the principal arguments for and against Supreme Court reform.
To call an actor a Hollywood legend sounds like hyperbole, but Norman Lloyd really was. He died Tuesday at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los
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Jon M. Chu, Fala Chen Discuss AAPI Representation in Hollywood During UTA Inclusion Panel Variety 3 hrs ago
According to “Crazy Rich Asians” and “In the Heights” filmmaker Jon M. Chu, many of the depictions of Asian women he’s seen portrayed in Hollywood films are “not the Asian women that we know.”
“That’s not my mother, not my grandmother, not my sister, not my best friend,” Chu said during a virtual panel presented Tuesday by United Talent Agency (UTA) in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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The lineup for the virtual event called “The State of AAPI Representation in Film, TV & Culture” was made up of UTA clients Chu, actors Fala Chen and Daniel Wu, and Mary Lee, head of film at A-Major Media, as well as Paula Madison, chair and CEO of Madison Media Management. The conversation was co-moderated by UTA partner and TV literary agent David Park and UTA’s Asia business development executive Emily Song, and