Thursday, December 04, 2025

done for President Truman’s plane, the “Sacred Cow.”


The Douglas Aircraft Company built a special plane for the president with an elevator so the wheelchair bound president could be boarded easily. 

The plane’s official name was “The Flying White House” but it was better known as the Sacred Cow because of its heavy security. 

President Roosevelt used the “Sacred Cow” to go to the Yalta Conference in 1945 to meet with Churchill and Stalin to discuss postwar Europe. This was the only time he used the plane since he died 2 months later. President Truman used the plane during his first 27 months in office.

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