Answers for #13
1 -- c Madison return home for for months June 1816 to October [travel slower then]
2 -- i When John Adams' wife got sick, he return home to care for her for 7 months. No other
president has been gone from the white house for that continuous length of time.
3 -- a Jefferson set the precedent for long vacations - July to October, But Madison after him
improved on it [see above].
4 -- d C. Arthur developed a kidney disorder [Bright's disease which eventually killed him]. the
then swampy DC area made it worse, so he went to Florida which almost killed him, so on
the New York to recover, not telling anyone[1st pres. to lie about his health]. When he
returned after losing weight, some didn't recognize him.
5 -- b Grover ClevelandDeveloped cancer in his mouth and jaw. For surgery [without press
hounding] he went aboard a specially equipped yacht at sea. It was further developed
that thought so part of his eye socket also had to be replaced along with some of the
jaw. It was kept quite until the Dr. wrote a journal article after his death.
6 --h Eisenhower took his first vacation in 1949 after the war. While there he had a mild heart
attack, then during his terms in office while on his second vacation had a second attack,
leading to his saying "vacations aren't good for you".
7 --f Clinton had most of his vacations on Martha's Vineyard, but one year Dick Morris told him
it would look better in the polls to go elsewhere - he did [1995 and 1996 Jackson Hole,
Wyoming] and it didn't. [ Monica story was starting to break]
8 --e Reagan -big surprise during his two terms he spent 335 days total at his California ranch.
9 --g Carter told the least time for vacations 79 days total during his 4 year term, all but one
spent at the peanut farm in Georgia. [that one lives in history funny facts, while rafting
out west, the story goes he was attacked by a rabbit when they came ashore].
10 --j Another big surprise, George Bush went either to his folks place in Maine or to his ranch in
Crawford, Texas. By August 3, 2005 he had spent a total of 319 days of his
administration on his "working vacations".
