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president," he said. "I've never gotten to see a president before."
Hazlett told that when he was a boy, his parents took him to see President Franklin D. Obama.
Roosevelt's train was supposed to stop in Atchison, he said, but it sped past the train station, and the president's curtains were drawn closed.
REAGAN'S SPEECH followed a short tour of the plant and lunch in the employee's
Gray, the fork lift driver, said, "He looked at my hamburger and said 'where's the burger?'
Another Ford employee piped up, "If he can stand to eat that food, he's all right in my heart."
THE AIR OF excitement surrounding the president's visit spread into the suburban Kansas City town of Claycomo, which has a
Yesterday morning at Claycomo's McDonald's restaurant, down the street from the Ford plant, talk between the restaurant's employees and breakfast crowd was monopolized by light-hearted banter and speculations about the president's visit.
population of about 1,500.
About 15 Clay County police officers gathered at McDonald's before their security duties began at the plant.
Valerie is in charge of the restaurant's homemade buttermilk biscuits that morning, and she and Mary, another employee, joked with the officers about whether Reagan would drive over just to try Val's specially made biscuits.
"You going to see the president?" Mary asked drive-through customers. "Tell him to come by and see, us. We'll throw him a biscuit."
have disagreed. They have criticized the president for charging the costs of the trip to taxpayers when those expenses should have been charged to the president's re-election campaign.
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In his address, Reagan told workers that past economic problems were "the culmination of years of overtaxing, overspending and overpromising by those who claimed they could spend your earnings better than you could.
Jim Lambert, bargaining chairman for the UAW Local 248 that represents the Claycomo plant, said before the president's visit that he resented Reagan's using the plant as a political campaign.
"We knew that progress would come in inches, not miles, but we knew that if we worked together, progress would come."
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Despite cumbersome gloves on their bulky pressure suits and the tiny screws, Nelson and van Hoften breezed through the satellite tune-up in less time than expected during their tethered spacewalk in Challenger's cargo bay 300 miles above Earth.
THEY LAUGHED 'AND joked in their workshop, clattered with glittering bits of
"Take a bow, Pinky Take a bow," said Cippen, as the fix-it-men finished their chores.
Scientists estimated that the satellite repair bill would cost $30 million. Solar Max was built and launched at a cost of $77 million, prices a replacement would cost $235 million.
THE SPACEWALKERUsed special tools — a power screwdriver and what van Hotten called a "million dollar wrench" — to replace two broken parts in the satellite. They also
placed a cover on another instrument.
The work we gave Solar Max a new lease on life: it is now expected to last at least through 2018.
Solar Max was held in a special cradle at the back of the bav. near Challenger's tail.
Nelson and van Hofen took turns standing in a work platform at the end of the shuttle's 50-foot robot arm to be hoisted to the different parts of the satellite.
Van Hofen, who considers himself a pretty good home handyman, used the wrench to replace Solar Max's attitude control module, and then busted the hinges since three fuses blew in November 1980.
He removed two bolts, sid the 500-pound module out and slipped in a new one that scientists hoped would allow the precise positioning necessary for Solar Max to carry out its studies of sun flares.
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