Saturday, April 10, 2004

Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News: "Best-rested war president in history?
by: oddbod777 04/10/04 06:17 pm
Msg: 11716 of 11725
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'This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and his five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500 days in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his presidency.'

That 40 percent of his presidency, of course, included the day of August 6, 2001, when Bush received a top-level intelligence briefing in Crawford titled, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' "