Voyages
165 voyages found
Secretary of the Navy Anderson's staff party
Photographs in the Eisenhower Library's Robert B. Anderson collection record a staff party aboard USS Sequoia on 25 April 1954. Secretary of the Navy…
Mamie Eisenhower and guests aboard Sequoia
A photograph in the Eisenhower Library's Herbert Brownell Jr. collection shows ten or eleven women, among them First Lady Mamie Eisenhower and Doris B…
Cuban Missile Crisis strategy meetings
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 the Kennedy administration held strategy meetings aboard Sequoia, away from the White House.
President Kennedy's 46th birthday cruise
On 29 May 1963 John F. Kennedy celebrated his 46th — and last — birthday aboard Sequoia with some twenty-five friends and family. Two orchestras playe…
The Kennedys' cancelled Sunday cruise
President and Mrs. Kennedy were scheduled to cruise aboard Sequoia on Sunday, 24 November 1963. The President was assassinated in Dallas two days earl…
President Johnson has FDR's elevator removed and a bar installed
Lyndon Johnson, who had made eight recorded trips as Vice President and would make more than thirty-five as President, ordered Roosevelt's elevator ta…
Jacqueline Kennedy's evening aboard with the President's friends
Jacqueline Kennedy was a guest aboard Sequoia on an evening in April 1964, in the company of friends of the late President.
Memorial gathering for President Kennedy, May 1964
In late May 1964, near the date that would have been the late President's 47th birthday, friends and colleagues met aboard Sequoia to remember him; th…
Cruise for African ambassadors
On 15 July 1965 President Johnson took a delegation of African ambassadors down the Potomac aboard Sequoia. White House photographs by Yoichi Okamoto…
Dinner cruise for foreign ambassadors
On 12 August 1965 President Johnson gave a dinner cruise for foreign ambassadors. One White House photograph shows Secret Service agent Lem Johns, a b…
Dinner for ambassadors from several countries
On 25 August 1965 President Johnson gave a dinner cruise for ambassadors from several countries. White House photographs show him walking up the gangp…
Boat ride and dinner with the Engelhards
On 1 September 1965 President Johnson took guests for a boat ride and dinner aboard Sequoia. A White House photograph shows him seated on deck in the…
Dinner with European ambassadors
On 13 July 1966 President Johnson dined aboard Sequoia with ambassadors from European countries, each seated in front of a TV tray.
Cruise with foreign ambassadors
On 27 July 1966 President Johnson took foreign ambassadors and other guests on a cruise. White House photographs show guests on the top deck, the Pres…
Re-designated the presidential yacht for the Nixon administration
In January 1969 the Navy again assigned Sequoia primarily to the President's use; by June she had resumed her broader schedule under the Secretary of…
Tricia Nixon's cruise with wounded servicemen
On 8 May 1969 Tricia Nixon greeted civilians and servicemen at the Anacostia Naval Station, then boarded Sequoia with Red Cross personnel and wounded…
President Nixon's evening cruise with C. G. Rebozo
On 24 May 1969 President Nixon cruised aboard Sequoia with C. G. Rebozo. The President's Daily Diary records that he went by car to Pier One of the Wa…
President Nixon's dinner cruise with his family and guests
On 14 June 1969 President Nixon took a boat ride and dined aboard Sequoia with the First Lady, David Eisenhower, Julie Eisenhower and two private gues…
President Nixon's evening cruise with his family, C. G. Rebozo and others
On 20 June 1969 President Nixon cruised aboard Sequoia with the First Lady, Julie Eisenhower, David Eisenhower, C. G. Rebozo, Rose Mary Woods, Patrick…
President Nixon's dinner cruise for Senators
On 23 June 1969 President Nixon went out aboard Sequoia for the evening with a party of Senators. The President's Daily Diary records that he went by…
President Nixon's evening cruise with Vice President Agnew, John N. Mitchell and others
On 24 June 1969 President Nixon cruised aboard Sequoia with Vice President Agnew, John N. Mitchell, Rogers C. B. Morton, Robert H. Finch, H. R. Haldem…
President Nixon meets the National Security Council's committee on Vietnam aboard Sequoia
On the evening of 7 July 1969 President Nixon held a meeting aboard Sequoia with what his Daily Diary calls "the NSC Executive Committee on Vietnam".…
Pat Nixon hosts a children's youth group
On 7 July 1969 First Lady Pat Nixon escorted a youth group of underprivileged children onto Sequoia and joined them for a tour on the Potomac. The Nix…
Tricia Nixon and the Summer in the Park children
On 10 July 1969 Tricia Nixon took a group of children from the Summer in the Park program aboard Sequoia. The Nixon Library's index describes the chil…
Mrs. Melvin Laird with nuns and children
On 30 July 1969 Mrs. Melvin Laird, wife of the Secretary of Defense, was aboard Sequoia on the Potomac with nuns and children. The children gave her a…