trains that played a part in the presidencies of andrew jackson, abraham lincoln, warren harding, franklin roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, and george h.w. bush, and of a presidential spouse ladybird johnson. he s the author of the president travels by train: politics. now i d like to introduce our special guest today bob withers. bob is an author. of course, he has written this book, which is the subject of our discussion today. the president travels by train. it was actually his first of what is now 29 books and came out in the first edition in 1996. it s subsequently been updated several times. and in 2018 was rereleased. i believe it s the third or fourth edition of the book. bob himself was a journalist by trade, and for 38 years worked for the huntington harold dispatch in huntington, west virginia, where he currently lives. he has a ba and an ma at marshall university. and he worked for the road while he was in college. and that actually is how i got to