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A White House official says President Obama and his family will vacation on Florida's Gulf Coast next month.
The Obamas are scheduled to travel to the coast on Aug. 14 and stay the weekend.
Obama has made four trips to the Gulf region, including one overnight stay, since an underwater well began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico in April. First lady Michelle Obama is making her second visit to the area on Friday.
Originally posted by ChrisF231
How many vacations is this guy going to take? GW Bush and previous presidents only went on vacations like twice a year for a week or so ... this guy seems to go on vacation every other weekend
According to one count, Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush spent more time on "vacation" during their first year than President Obama did. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton spent less time on "vacation."
Originally posted by ChrisF231
How many vacations is this guy going to take? GW Bush and previous presidents only went on vacations like twice a year for a week or so ... this guy seems to go on vacation every other weekend
Originally posted by ChrisF231
How many vacations is this guy going to take? GW Bush and previous presidents only went on vacations like twice a year for a week or so ... this guy seems to go on vacation every other weekend
President Obama has spent all or part of 26 days "on vacation" during his first year as president, according to CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller.
President Reagan, in 1981, spent all or part of 42 days away from the White House "on vacation" at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif, according to Knoller. President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, also spent three or four days around New Year’s Day each year in Palm Springs, Calif., at the home of philanthropist Walter Annenberg.
President George W. Bush spent even more time away from the presidential mansion in the nation’s capital than Reagan. Of the 77 total "vacation" trips the former president made to his Texas ranch while in office, nine of them — all or part of 69 days — came during his first year as president in 2001, according to Knoller.
Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, spent less time "on vacation" during his first year than his son, but spent more days than President Obama. According to travel records provided to FactCheck.org by the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the former president took six trips — spanning all or part of 40 days — to the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1989.