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Fdr went on a sailing trip. you had to figure what am i going to do? he came up creatively with the whole idea of lending lease. lending weapons to britain. in return, lease bases to us. it cut through the debate in congress. so that brilliant idea came from being on the waters, as se head, outside of the conventional thinking of washington. ronald reagan was known for taking a lot of vacations in santa barbara and, of course, loved horses. nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. it s interesting, doris. mark knoller, cbs historian actually tweeting yesterday about this saying that reagan used to have a daily plane flight out from washington with the newspapers on it, and that the leftover new york times and washington post would be given to the press afterwards, and it was a real treat. isn t that amazing? you know, he once said to ....
Bringing his outside friends not a problem. we re running our campaign talking about concerns of people in this city, to have safer streets. we re talking about the neighborhoods, not just bringing in oitsers. braun had pointed words for former president bill clinton who is a porting emanuel s campaign. shep said clinton is simply an outsider helping an outsider. president obama is enjoying vacation before getting back to the grind here in washington and, of course, he isn t the only president to want to get away for a while. yesterday we focused on the current president, but today we want to take a look back through history at some of the presidents predecessors and theirs great escaped. doris kerns goodwin, a pulitzer prize winner. doris a treats to talk to you. we love your history an anecdotes. let me ask you what do you think is one of the most memorable vacations that one of our presidents took? well, i would say when teddy roosevelt went on a several week ....
Mike deemer, his aide, you can tell me a lot of things to do, deemer, but you re not letting me not come to this ranch. i m 70 years old, and it s going to add years on my life to come here. i don t begrudge him that, if it gave him a certain replenishment, so be it. let him go on that horse. talk about that, doris. how important is this relaxation for presidents? because as we know, they never truly get away. they never truly get a vacation. president obama may be in hawaii, and being able to spend time with his family, but he s still getting presidential daily briefing, still in touch with his national security officials and placing calls to world leaders. no question that the weight of the presidency comes with you, but i do think by getting into a sdif ritual, a different form of the day it does provide relaxation, and the interesting thing is that most presidents choose to go back to places they have already been. i mean, franklin roosevelt said when he went to hyde park all t ....