“We have been busy working with federal officials to ensure<br />that your visits home to Palm Beach County will continue to be enjoyable,” the letter read, “and provide a place away from the White House to conduct the important business of the country.”<br />The commissioners all agreed it was important to set the “right tone.”<br />In January, Mr. Trump’s lawyers made what previously would have been an unheard-of request: They asked for permission from Palm Beach officials<br />to build a 50-foot concrete helipad outside Mar-a-Lago, to accommodate Marine One, the helicopter that carries the president.<br />By MICHAEL LaFORGIA and STEVE EDERMAY 6, 2017<br />PALM BEACH, Fla. — For local officials here, it was one thing to spar with Donald J. Trump, the developer, over the height of his ficus hedges, the crowds at his Elton John concerts<br />and the roar of jet engines over his private club, Mar-a-Lago.<br />Even then, town leaders conditioned their approval on Mr. Trump’s signing a 17-page “use agreement,”<br />which his lawyer later would describe as “like ankle bracelets on an innocent prisoner.”<br />A sample of Mr. Trump’s correspondence with local government in Palm Beach County.<br />If he didn’t get everything he wanted the first time around, he might get enough to make it worth his while.”<br />When Mr. Trump used a Boeing 727 in the 1990s, it was the loudest plane at the Palm Beach County airport, according to former airport officials.
