Aug 18, 2016 · Obama golfs 'organic' on Martha's Vineyard, $350,000 initiation fee. P resident Obama is golfing organic Wednesday, taking his clubs to one of the most exclusive venues in New England, and one ...
Aug 15, 2015 · President Barack Obama, left, talks with former President Bill Clinton, right, as they play golf on the first hole at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on …
Aug 10, 2014 · Obama hits the links on Martha's Vineyard David Jackson USA TODAY It didn't take President Obama long to get to the golf course during the first weekend of his Martha's Vineyard vacation. Obama...
POTUS made one trip to Mink Meadows Golf Club in Vineyard Haven, a much more relaxed, public nine-hole course. For the most part, President Obama played golf …
In the summer of 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, parked his bags inside a gingerbread cottage on Ocean Avenue, and enjoyed a fireworks display from the roof. Flash-forward 142 years, and the island’s summer White Houses have gotten a little more secluded and a lot more plush: Boasting serious square footage and endless amenities, these former presidential hideaways have offered plenty of room for rest, relaxation, and the occasional security briefing.
John Adams —whose 3,500-tome stockpile is enshrined at the BPL—may have been our country’s first bookworm president, but our national pastime of dissecting what’s on the White House nightstand was perhaps first sparked by JFK, after he divulged a fondness for Bond novels.
They cruise with the Kennedys. “August 1998 was a bloody month,” Hillary Clinton wrote in her book Living History. Terrorists bombed two African U.S. embassies; meanwhile, the Lewinsky scandal was reaching fever pitch. “The last thing in the world I wanted to do was go away on vacation.”.
JFK may have been on the Harvard swim team, but it appears his wife also liked to make a splash. First lady Jackie Kennedy relished the sport of water-skiing, gliding next to astronaut John Glenn near the family compound in Hyannis Port one summer.