US presidents hosted heads of state and held glamorous parties aboard the USS Sequoia, the presidential yacht known as the ...
on the presidential yacht.AP Photo, File In June 1973, President Richard Nixon hosted Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev on the Sequoia, where the two negotiated the SALT-1 nuclear arms treaty.
From 1932 to 1977 US presidents had a private yacht named USS Sequoia at their disposal. Aboard the Sequoia, presidents hosted foreign leaders and held glamorous parties. The boat was sold by the ...