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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1070529&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312Aug. 26, 2005 -- President Bush is on pace to spend more time on vacation than any other president in modern times.
Today is the 342nd day he has spent at least some part of the day at his ranch, which means he's spent almost an entire year of his four and a half years in office at the ranch. That doesn't include time he's spent at his parents' place in Kennebunkport, Maine, or at Camp David.If he stays at his Texas ranch until Sept. 3, as expected, the five-week stint away from the White House —
the 49th vacation he's taken at the ranch — will surpass President Nixon's monthlong trip to Florida 36 years ago as the longest presidential retreat in the modern era.
Bush isn't the first president to take a lot of time off. His father, President George H.W. Bush, spent 153 days in Maine and 390 at Camp David; Dwight Eisenhower spent 222 days for 29 golf outings in Augusta, Ga., during his eight years in office; Harry Truman spent 175 days in Key West, Fla., over seven years; and Ronald Reagan famously loved his vacations, spending all or part of 335 days during his eight-year presidency at his Santa Barbara, Calif., ranch