President Spent a Third of 1990 on Road, in Air
sident Bush lived up to his reputation in 1990 as the man who can’t sit still, spending more than one-third of the year on the road as he hopped from Bermuda to Saudi Arabia and Hawaii to Maine.
Bush christened a new Air Force One and logged 144,749 foreign and domestic flying miles for the year in his new 747 jumbo jet and its predecessors, according to statistics compiled by the White House.
His two-year travel total handily surpasses that of his predecessor, Ronald Reagan. Bush traveled to 113 cities in 44 states. During Reagan’s first two years in office, he made it to 32 states.
Bush visited 28 foreign countries; Reagan, 13.
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