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Originally Posted by epitome
Wait a second, everybody here knows that there is no such a thing as a "vacation" for the President of the United States, right? His closest advisers are still with him, he still has meetings, he still makes the big decisions he always makes. They just happen to relocate the White House to wherever he is.
It's not like the President is a data entry clerk that is losing productivity. All the position calls for is making decisions ... and those decisions can be made anywhere.
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I'm glad someone here other than me knew this and pointed it out before me. Rancho Del Cielo was not called the White House of the West for no reason same thing goes for Prairie Chapel Ranch in the south.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library lists 21 foreign dignitaries to visit Rancho Del Cielo including Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Bush for example had all these foreign dignitaries out to his ranch.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin, November 2001
* British Prime Minister Tony Blair, April 2002
* Saudi King Abdullah, April 2002, April 2005
* Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, August 2002
* Chinese President Jiāng Zémín, October 2002
* Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, February 2003
* Australian Prime Minister John Howard, May 2003
* Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirō, May 2003
* Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, July 2003
* Mexican President Vicente Fox, March 2004, March 2005
* Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, April 2004
* Spanish King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía, November 2004
* Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, March 2005
* Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, April 2005
* Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, August 2005
* German Chancellor Angela Merkel, November 2007
* Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, February 2008
However most of the number still include all of these meetings as vacations even though they where working vacations.