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The Presidential Limousine may look approaching a new invention, something that came active inside the old few Presidential status. This, however, is a misconception. Officially, the primary President to ride in what has go specified as the Presidential Limousine was Woodrow Wilson. Taking the streets during a display celebrating the US triumph in World War I, he was compliance the end of the war and, unknowingly, starting the establishment of a installation institution.

Following Wilson, Calvin Coolidge used a 1928 Cadillac town car during his administration, but legal proceeding presidents had thing even improved. In 1938, the US management standard two Cadillac Convertibles, which flexible 21.5 feet lifelong and weighed most 8 m pounds. They were called after water liners and called the "Queen Elizabeth" and the "Queen Mary." These vehicles integrated nigh failsafe generators, two way radios, and a filled magazine or ammo. Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, victimization these two Cadillacs during their several reigns, were the premier Presidents to drive in some style and heightened refuge.

After the occupy on Pearl Harbor, the heightened refuge got even taller and an armored auto that was primitively in hand by Al Capone was in use. The Department of Treasury took ownership of this limousine after Capone was saved miserable of tax dodging and placed it in an take lot. Amid the fear of the Harbor attacks, it was believed to be the safest style to yield FDR to congress, allowing him to verbalize his "Date that will stay alive in infamy" sermon to the thousands of Americans listening at warren.

Once Al Capone's machine was put to rest, a 1939 Lincoln V12 convertible titled the "Sunshine Special" was built for Roosevelt. Used until 1950, it is now on demo at the Henry Ford Museum.

Another especially planned limo, named the "Bubble Top" was nearly new by Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. After fifteen years, it was retired in 1965 and - tailing in the hoop tracks of the "Sunshine Special"- is now too on ordeal at the Henry Ford Museum.

While the limos were with time decorous more secure, they were for sure fallible, particularly when the protective cover was removed. This brings us to JFK.

Arguably the most prominent Presidential automobile was John F. Kennedy's. A 1961 Lincoln Continental Convertible, noted as a X-100, provided JFK next to his terminal journeying on November 22, 1963. Known for scarcity of air conditioning, the top was removed during the Dallas display (and plentiful modern world previously) to receive the passengers much soothing. This conspicuously provided a high protection risk, one that did not go disregarded by the manslayer.

During Lyndon Johnson's term, a trio of 1965 Lincoln Continental Executive Limousines was utilized and Richard Nixon rode in a personalized X-100 as healed as a 1969 Lincoln automobile beside a sunroof, which he requested.

Near the mid-1970's, a 1972 Continental beside lightly armored plates, buckshot imperviable glass, and a V.8 was specified to the US command and nearly new by Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan and after a while found its way into the Henry Ford Museum. George Bush (the early one) rode in a modified 1989 Lincoln Town Car.

Reagan was also fixed a Cadillac Fleetwood machine during his presidential term and Bill Clinton was given a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Presidential order during his. These vehicles were planned to speech act best security

The Cadillac Fleetwood given to Reagan is now in the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in California and Clinton's 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham is settled in the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas. These are the second of the Presidential Limousines that will of all time be put on flourish. The residuum will be pillaged by the Secret Service.