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tazzygirl -> RE: Obama's report card (11/23/2011 12:39:48 PM)
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Oh and for all the idiots who complain about the amount of golf Obama plays?
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/stories/Ike-Golf.htm
2 times a week for his whole Presidency.
When Eisenhower became president there was no doubt in the minds of most Americans that he loved golf. Early in his presidential years the United States Golf Association, using privately donated money, built a two-hole putting green with a small sand trap on the White House lawn near the Oval Office. He kept one of his irons in the office so that he could step out to the lawn and practice his swing.
During his White House years Ike managed, on average, to play golf about two times a week. Most of these outings were on courses near Washington, but his favorite course was Augusta. The founders, famous golfer Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones and financier Clifford Roberts were Eisenhower’s personal friends. They even erected a small cottage on the grounds where Ike and Mamie could have some privacy during a golfing weekend. At Augusta Ike got to know Arnold Palmer and the two men became close friends.
Ike’s detractors always complained that President Eisenhower spent more time playing golf than minding the people’s business, but, contrary to the advice of his aides, he never tried to conceal any of his outings to the links. He used many of these occasions to do the kind of personal networking that kept him in touch with the nation’s other leaders, and he seems as well to have used golfing as a means of convincing the American people to remain calm during the frequent crises of the Cold War. If the president could relax then perhaps the people could too. So the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first earth orbiting satellite, and the media and much of the populace panicked about communist missile development, Ike left the White House for a two day golfing outing at Gettysburg.
Sound familiar?
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