An illustration of how humbling power can be in a democratic society. There's nothing to bloat an ego here:
![[Image: 300px-MagellanRailcardiningroom.JPG]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/MagellanRailcardiningroom.JPG/300px-MagellanRailcardiningroom.JPG)
That is the formal dining room of the President's official rail car, the Ferdinand Magellan, last used officially in 1954 until Reagan used it for a short trip. I've seen grander diners in small towns.
![[Image: 220px-Magellan_Railcar_PresidentsStateroom.JPG]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Magellan_Railcar_PresidentsStateroom.JPG/220px-Magellan_Railcar_PresidentsStateroom.JPG)
...and the state room. You might expect the richest country of the time to splurge on something grander. Nope. That's one reflection of America being a richer country than Tito's Yugoslavia. You saw his train car -- far more impressive, don't you think?
...This was perfectly good for Harry S. Truman's whistle-stop tour in 1948.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_..._(railcar)
That is the formal dining room of the President's official rail car, the Ferdinand Magellan, last used officially in 1954 until Reagan used it for a short trip. I've seen grander diners in small towns.
...and the state room. You might expect the richest country of the time to splurge on something grander. Nope. That's one reflection of America being a richer country than Tito's Yugoslavia. You saw his train car -- far more impressive, don't you think?
...This was perfectly good for Harry S. Truman's whistle-stop tour in 1948.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_..._(railcar)
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.