Presidential vacations — the timing, the location, the length — have long been a source of scrutiny for the media. Critics even got in on the action when Michelle Obama went to Spain for a long weekend earlier this month. Hit the jump to see some of the first family vacations.
George H.W. Bush walks the wintery streets of downtown Kennebunkport while on vacation in 1989. We know it’s cold in Maine in the winter, but this hat has got to go.
Bush1 reacts to a missed putt while playing golf with Bush2 at Kennebunkport’s Cape Arundel Golf Club while on vacation in August 1990. Bush2’s look is totally priceless–and nice hats fellas.
See, presidents are just like us! The Clintons took the quintessential American vacation shot of the 1990s while white-water rafting on the Big Kahuna Rapids of the Wyoming’s Snake River in 1996.
President Clinton scrutinizes the double scoop of blueberry ice cream he was served at Martha’s Vineyard’s Mad Martha’s Ice Cream Shop in 1997. What is that not enough ice cream for you, Bubba? And don’t get us started on Hillary’s headband…we shudder at the thought of our own collection.
Bubba’s really into his golf swing at Bellevue Country Club in Syracuse, N.Y. in 1999.
Oh look, a 2003 Bush family outing around the Kennebunkport property on Segway scooters!
…And down goes Fraiser!!!
Ok, so he wasn’t President yet, but this is no way to get yourself elected. Obama “rides” a wave in Hawaii in August 2008.
Is the shaved ice really that cold? Obama takes a lick while on holiday vacation in Hawaii in 2010.
