Reply #5: not quite the same, but I did find stats on # of vacation days for Bush

[Lisa]

Discussed in another thread today (though the Yahoo article's been bouncing around DU for a few months now)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=611315&mesg_id=611315

Note also that Junior is the first person to earn $400,000 per year in that position. Other Presidents made $200k or less.


http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20031001.html

"According to an August 2003 article in the Washington Post,
President Bush has spent all or part of 166 days during his
presidency at his Crawford, Texas, ranch or en route. Add the
time spent at or en route to the presidential retreat of Camp David
and at the Bush family estate in Kennebunkport, Maine, and Bush
has taken 250 days off as of August 2003."

(snip)
"Bush isn't the first president to get away from his work. George
Bush Sr. took all or part of 543 vacation days at Camp David and
in Kennebunkport. Ronald Reagan spent 335 days at or en route
to his Santa Barbara, California, ranch during his eight years in
office. Of recent presidents, Jimmy Carter took the least days off
-- only 79 days, which he usually spent at his home in Georgia."

(snip)

"What about Clinton? As of December 1999, President Bill Clinton
had spent only 152 days on holiday during his two terms,
according to CBS News. A former staffer noted Clinton was such
a workaholic that "it almost killed Clinton to take one-week
vacations during August." In 2000, Clinton cut his summer vacation
short to just three days, so he and his wife could concentrate on
her Senate race and fundraising for Democrats. While we couldn't
find the exact tally for Clinton's last year in office, it's reasonable to
expect he didn't increase his vacation rate. And in barely three
years in office, George W. Bush has already taken more vacation
than Clinton did in seven years. "