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Does have this fleet. so the vip fleet. there are many xap pells of presidents using these to great advantage as you say to get into smaller markets and smaller places. one consultant once estimated that it give, the president, you know, 10,000 votes just to land in a community in a big city. because air force one is such an amazing icon. >> and people just love to go and sit there and watch it. trust me. and you know it, you and i both have seen it. you see hundreds lined up, taking pictures of the plane. they love that plane. ken walsh, great stuff. always one of the best keepers of presiden...

News & world report." you've got a new book, prisoners of the white house, the isolation of america's presidents and the crisis of leadership. when i first saw prisoners of the white house, i thought you were going to refer to the white house press corps but we'll leave that aside. >> a lot of people thought that. >> exactly. let's talk about this history of air force one. it's a lot of money to run. but after -- there's been this debate over the years, particularly, you know, any time when a republican's in the white house democrats complain about overuse of it. we democrats are in the white ...

Command center on 9/11. the plane provided bush his vantage point for viewing aftermath of hurricane katrina. an image that hurt him at the time with the public. obama has made good use of it. carried him to at least ten foreign countries this year alone. how many other planes have a movie named after them? maybe one of the greatest movie lines ever by a fictional president harrison ford. >> ahh! >> get off my plane! >> i get so -- just hearing that music and hearing that line fires me up. ken walsh wrote the book "air force one," a history of their presidents and their plane. he is the chief ...

House was targeted and so on. at one point, the pilot of air force one, just to illustrate how amazingly chaotic that day was, asked a secret service agent that he trusted to stand guard at the cockpit door so there would be no takeover of the plane. isn't that amazing? i always found that an amazing story. the plane actually passed the big test on that day. because it was a terrible crisis and the question was, can air force one keep the president safe and secure and in communication with the country and the world? and it succeeded. did happen. one other quick story, when the president landed...

Room. not to mention the latest in communications technology and emergency countermeasures in case of an attack. it wasn't always so fancy. the first plane to be designated air force one was a 121. just 116 feet long. it made headlines earlier this year after it was discovered rusting at an arizona airport. the owner of the plane which carried president eisenhower in the late '50s is trying to house it in a museum but so far no takers. hello. what's going on in abilene? eisenhower's successor president kennedy changed the plane to the more advanced long range 707. he had the design changed tor...