people understand that presidents need vacations and we should all want our presidents to take a break every once in a while, they re pretty high stress jobs, the white house has to be very conscious about images of the president, having too much fun. or i ve done a piece of the presidents playing government, david mariner wrote a book. he was playing golf until 11:30 last night. that was hawaii teime. but bush, the president you worked for stopped playing golf after 9/11 and that very famous shot of him talking about terrorism then saying, now, watch my drive, became a clip on michael moore s movie. t he did not play golf again. a couple of years after that, he quit playing golf and said it wasn t the image he wanted to