President Bush Travel: Go Big Or Go Home
Ever since Guns & Ammo replaced The New Republic as the chosen reading material aboard Air Force One, the private 747 has seen a lot more pleasure travel. The president spent the last three weeks on vacation at his Crawford, Texas ranch, clearing brush and listening to national security briefings in his living room.
Through Labor Day weekend, Bush will camp out at the 1,600-acre compound. Until now, Reagan held the presidential vacation-time record, at 436 days in his two terms. Bush is already at 418 days with 17 months to go in his presidency.
Also indulging in the lazy days of late summer: Vice President Dick Cheney, who vacations in Wyoming and Maryland. Congress is gone until September 4, and the Iraqi parliament was out all month.
Even though President Bush can't run again, we have to add him to our Candidates Travel Map just because he spends so much time on the road. (While the rest of us struggle to use up our two weeks of vacation a year.) Better get that next trip planned soon, Obama!
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· Bush On Vacation [Houston Chronicle]
· Barack in Miami [Jaunted]
· 2008 Candidates Travel [Jaunted]
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