Posted on 11/23/2016 6:52:22 AM PST by RummyChick
With Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort for Thanksgiving, it isn't the first time a president-elect has used Palm Beach as his vacation refuge.
John F Kennedy's family estate, known during his term as the Winter White House, is seven miles north at the other end of Ocean Drive.
Like Kennedy's visits, Trump's trips to Palm Beach will bring increased attention, some unwanted, to this wealthy enclave of about 10,000 people, a number that triples in the winter.
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The attempt on Kennedy's life
Domestic terrorism nearly claimed Kennedy in December 1960, a month before he took office.
Richard Pavlick, a 73-year-old retired New Hampshire postal worker who hated Catholics, planned to kill Kennedy in a suicide-bomb attack as the president-elect stayed in Palm Beach to prepare for his inauguration.
Pavlick loaded his 1950 Buick with dynamite and parked near St. Edward Church, intending to detonate the car as Kennedy arrived for Mass.
He later told police he decided to temporarily spare Kennedy when he saw Jacqueline Kennedy and their children with him. A former colleague figured out the plan from postcards Pavlick had sent him.
The colleague then alerted the Secret Service, and Pavlick was arrested a few days later as he re-entered town, seven sticks of dynamite still in his car. He spent seven years in mental hospitals.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
For the Dems that want to complain about costs..there is this bit:
“The bomb shelters
One thing Trump will have in common with Kennedy when in Palm Beach is access to a fallout shelter.
When Kennedy became president, the military took 10 days to build a secret nuclear shelter and command post on nearby Peanut Island in case World War III broke out. Today, it’s a tourist attraction.
Mar-a-Lago is said to have three bomb shelters. “
I bet they won’t be calling it Camelot.
Palm Beach Bad, Martha’s Vineyard good? I’ve been to both and think either is a fine place for anyone to stay, visit, vacation. Good luck to Donald!
So, he goes to a place he built, and enjoys life .. the losers in life don’t think it’s fair because they haven’t found out that you have to WORK to get those things; unless you want to work for a bunch of crooks - like the Clintons.
Trump has had more than one run in with Palm Beach.
Will he get his flag pole now?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/trumps-war-with-palm-beach-213122
Cnn clip about security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fboc1b0AcTg
Trumps is going to his own properties unlike Obozo who always vacationed on the arm.
And Obama’s frequent trips to Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard and other predominantly white, upper-class areas - on our dime, no less - do not? No mention, of course, of the fact that Trump is traveling on his own dime, nor of Trump’s law suit against the city of West Palm Beach, for its exclusion of blacks and Jews from Mar-a-Lago.
Well, he didn’t actually build it. That would have been Marjorie Merriweather Post.
He bought it and restored and updated it.
from wiki:
Marjorie Merriweather Post built the house with her then-husband Edward F. Hutton. Post hired Marion Sims Wyeth to design it, and Joseph Urban to create interior design and exterior decorations.[9][10] Upon her death in 1973, Post willed the 17-acre (69,000 m2) estate to the U.S. Government as a retreat for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries.[11] However, the mansion was not used for this purpose. The U.S. Government deeded it back to the Merriweather Post family. Mar-a-Lago was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980.[3][12][13]
Mar-a-Lago has frequently hosted the International Red Cross Ball, an annual white tie, tails, and tiara ball. Founded by Post, it has a history of attracting wealthy socialites and ambassadors from across the world in support of the mission of the American Red Cross.
Donald Trump paid $10 million for the estate in 1985.[5] After acquiring the property, Trump had the property renovated, with 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, a 29-foot-long (8.8 m) pietra dura marble top dining table, 12 fireplaces, and three bomb shelters. The club also has five clay tennis courts and a waterfront pool. Further additions have been made since then, including a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) ballroom.
When Protesting meets the regulations of a wealthy enclave
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/cerabino-protesting-in-palm-beach-is-an-act-of-civ/ntCFm/
http://fortune.com/2016/03/16/donald-trump-mar-a-lago/
A Look Inside Donald Trump’s Lavish, $200 Million ‘Palace’
His ballroom beats any tent used for a State Dinner at the WH.
He knows. Wants to build one at the WH.
Purchased for $10M worth $200M. Hell of a ROI.
Helipad is being built to cut down on the imposition to locals’ traffic flow!
Press will be shut out. Unlike all those photo ops with Obama eating ice cream and snow cones..Trump is going to stay inside his compound which has everything he needs.
Well, air traffic over the property won’t be a problem anymore.
Now that you mention John Kennedy, brings to mind how the Kennedy family had to sell off all their possesions and become paupers so John could be president. I don’t think the family ever recovered.
Well, he’ll only he there during the office season.
Love staying at The Biltmore and partying and hanging out the Flagler Mansion dreaming or shopping on Worth Avenue.
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