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The Most Vacationing President in U.S. History: George W. Bush Calls to several Presidential libraries reveal that President Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, was on vacation more — 1,020 days — than any U.S. President since Herbert Hoover and possibly more than any other President in history.
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Trump on pace to surpass 8 years of Obama's travel spending in 1 year Story highlights. Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's travel to his private club in Florida has cost over an estimated $20 million in his first 80 days as president, putting the president on pace in his first year of office to surpass former President Barack Obama's spending on travel for his entire eight years.
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How many vacation days has obama taken so far? According to CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, considered the unofficial presidential statistician, Obama has taken nine vacations since taking offi…ce. By the end of August, 2010, Knoller said, Obama willl have spent 48 days on vacation since he became president on January 20, 2009.
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Like many presidents, Barack Obama is an eager golfer, has played 137 rounds as president Like many presidents, Barack Obama is an eager golfer, has played 137 rounds as president. VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. - American presidents love golf — 15 of the last 18 have played — and Barack Obama is an eager member of that club. He's played golf on four of six days since arriving on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard last Saturday.
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Obama Has Spent More Time Playing Golf Than In Intel Briefings President Barack Obama has spent more time golfing than he has spent listening to daily intelligence briefings. The Daily Caller has calculated that he’s spent almost 700 hours in 875 “Presidential Daily Briefings” since 2009. But he’s also spent roughly 800 hours on almost 200 golf trips since his first inauguration.
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Facts take a vacation in Occupy Democrats' post about presidential, congressional time off Presidential vacations. First, it's important to realize that if you're only going back a generation (20 years), you're only comparing Obama to two other presidents — Bill Clinton who took office in 1993 and George W. Bush, who was inaugurated in 2001.
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Facts take a vacation in Occupy Democrats' post about presidential, congressional time off Occupy Democrats says Obama has taken less vacation days than any other president in a generation, while Congress has taken more vacation days than any other Congress in history.. The post is wrong for Obama. It is ridiculously wrong for Congress. We rate it Pants on Fire!
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Fact check: Did Obama or Bush take more vacation? If readers want to make an apples-to-apples comparison, the best solution is to use Knoller’s figures as of August 8, cited above: Bush, 407; Obama, 125. But the numbers say more about how many days the presidents spent away from the White House than they do about how much time the presidents spent not working.
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Why Donald Trump Doesn't Take Vacations Why Donald Trump Doesn't Take Vacations. Just because he owns multiple palatial vacation homes, that doesn't mean Republican Presidential nominee (and real estate tycoon) Donald Trump enjoys unwinding at his Florida beachfront estate, Mar-a-Lago. As the Boston Globe writes, Trump rarely takes time off from brokering deals or, as of late, tweeting.
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Who took more vacation -- George W. Bush or Barack Obama? Bush played many fewer rounds as president -- 24, mainly because he stopped in 2003, since it sent the wrong message when troops were fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Still, Obama is hardly the all-time champion in presidential golf rounds.
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'No vacation' Obama spends $80 million on vacations The 2013 17-day vacation in Hawaii for the president, his family, and staff and security was estimated to cost more than $4 million. In 2014, WND reported two golf outings for Obama – to Key Largo, Florida, and to Palm Springs, California – cost $2.9 million.
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Who took more vacation -- George W. Bush or Barack Obama? Even a year later, our fact-check on which president took more vacation -- George W. Bush or Barack Obama -- remains one of our most popular fact-checks with readers. Given the Obama’s family’s summer vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., we thought it was time to look at the numbers again.
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President Obamaâs Vacation Days A: 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..
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Presidents' vacation times and controversies Questions on too much vacation have yet to die down, years into his presidency. According to CBS News, Obama has actually taken the fewest days off. Check out the slideshow to see which president took the most vacation days, as well as disasters that happened while some were enjoying leisure time.
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Obama has been on a third as many vacations as George W. Bush had at this point in his presidency But Bush also spent substantially more days on vacation than Obama, Knoller notes. As of yesterday, Obama had taken a total of 129 full or partial vacation days compared to Bush's 381. And those are just the days and times Bush visited his Prairie Chapel ranch in Texas.
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Compared to past presidents, Obama takes few vacations This is not the first time the President has been criticized for taking a vacation during an urgent situation. During Obama's first term in 2009, Obama addressed the Underwear Bomber situation on television from Hawaii.
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How President Obama's vacation time stacks up President George W. Bush took all or part of 297 days at his Texas ranch. Bill Clinton took 174 days at Martha's Vineyard and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Ronald Reagan vacationed 349 days at his California ranch over eight years. President Obama is also not the first to cut a vacation short. Reagan did it in 1983, Clinton in 1993 and 1998, and Bush, in 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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Obama's Family Vacations to Cost Taxpayers More Than $20 Million President Barack Obama’s four vacations to Hawaii since becoming president may cost taxpayers “in excess of $20 million, and possibly much, much more,’’ the White House Dossier reports. A breakdown by the Hawaii Reporter shows his trips in 2009, 2010, and 2011 cost about $4 million, much of it for Air Force One.
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Al Sharpton defends Obama family vacation, saying George W. Bush spent more time away The article says, At the same point in Bush's presidency, the 43rd president had spent 367 days at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, and his parent's compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, according to a count by CBS News reporter Mark Knoller.
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Who vacationed more, Bush or Obama? Related rulings: Says President Barack Obama has taken 92 days of vacation since he was sworn in, compared to 367 for President George W. Bush at the same point in his presidency. — Al Sharpton, Friday, August 9th, 2013.
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Obama vs. Bush: Who Took More Presidential Vacations? Bush’s total for his two terms in office is 533 days, which includes 490 at the ranch and the rest at Kennebunkport. For comparison’s sake, President Bill Clinton’s total is 174 days, and Reagan hit 390 (349 at his ranch and 41 in Palm Springs), according to Knoller.
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President Obamaâs Vacation Days But at least two recent presidents — by Knoller’s count — took less vacation time during their first year than President Obama — Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. According to Knoller, Carter spent just 19 days on vacation in 1977.
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Obama vs. Bush: Who Took More Presidential Vacations? Adding in Camp David visits would bring Obama’s total to date to 223 (that’s 83 days at Camp David) and Bush’s total for his entire time in office to 1,024 (491 days at the presidential retreat). Note that Obama still has more than two years in office to narrow the gap.
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Presidential Vacations Q: Is it true that George W. Bush took more vacation days than Barack Obama? A: Yes. Before his two-week trip to Martha’s Vineyard in August, Obama’s count was 125 full or partial days and Bush’s total at the same point in his presidency was 407. FULL ANSWER. Our inbox is chock full of questions about who took more vacation days, Obama or Bush.
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Obama vs. Bush: Who Took More Presidential Vacations? We last dealt with the who-took-more-vacation question in January 2010, at which point Obama had spent 26 days on vacation during his first year in office, fewer than the first year totals for Presidents Bush, George H.W. Bush or Ronald Reagan.
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Which president has played more golf during their presidency, Obama or Bush? But in terms of vacation days, as of December 2015, Bush made up for it. Last December, CBS News reported that the number of vacation days President Obama has taken since the beginning of his presidency stood at 161 days. If you add the 28 days of vacation he has taken this year his total comes to 189 days.