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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC 14 Jan 2014

    FDR became 1st sitting POTUS to fly, traveling to Casablanca to see Winston Churchill, 71 years ago today: #NARApic.twitter.com/tMRwYf5X5w

    8:08 AM - 14 Jan 2014
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      2. Erik Eckholm‏ @eckholm 14 Jan 2014
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        .@BeschlossDC Met at Rick's

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      2. Conservative History‏ @ConHistGrp 14 Jan 2014
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        FDR was the first sitting US President to take a flight #onthisday 1943, flying to meet Churchill pic.twitter.com/XzPpnQ2rfu (via @BeschlossDC)

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      3. Conservative History‏ @ConHistGrp 14 Jan 2014
        Replying to @ConHistGrp

        @BeschlossDC British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain took his first flight five years earlier, travelling to Germany to meet Hitler

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      4. Labour History Group‏ @LabourHistory 14 Jan 2014
        Replying to @ConHistGrp

        .@ConHistGrp @BeschlossDC Think Ramsay MacDonald was the first British PM to travel by plane while in office:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1549793/Margaret-Sutherland.html …

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      6. Labour History Group‏ @LabourHistory 14 Jan 2014
        Replying to @davidallengreen

        @JackofKent @ConHistGrp Interesting q; Bonar Law probably a good guess given he died only shortly after the start of commercial aviation

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      7. Callum May‏ @callummay 14 Jan 2014
        Replying to @LabourHistory

        @LabourHistory @JackofKent @ConHistGrp This came up in a pub quiz recently. It was Baldwin.

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      8. Conservative History‏ @ConHistGrp 14 Jan 2014
        Replying to @callummay

        @callummay @LabourHistory @JackofKent Now that sounds like a good pub quiz!

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      1. Matt Wilson‏ @Falcontch 14 Jan 2014
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        @BeschlossDC @foolsconfidence first "sitting" President.... #punny

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      1. Kent Borg‏ @kentborg 14 Jan 2014
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        @BeschlossDC That picture doesn't match kind of plane you show over SF. Radius of curvature looks too small.

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      1. Ed Darrell‏ @EdDarrell 14 Jan 2014
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        @BeschlossDC In a Boeing 314 Flying Boat; FDR had a great time. http://blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/files/2013/01/RooseveltsFirstFlight.jpg … http://blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/2013/01/the-first-presidential-flight/ …

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      1. Ed Darrell‏ @EdDarrell 14 Jan 2014
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        @BeschlossDC @OurPresidents Could have been a great follow-up movie to "Casablanca," from this story.

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      1. Tom Green‏ @TGreenDenver 14 Jan 2014
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        Wow! MT @BeschlossDC: FDR is 1st sitting Pres. to fly, off to Casablanca to see Churchill, 71 yrs ago today: #NARApic.twitter.com/PlH9UssxCS

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