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Liberated from having to take his family on vacation wherever it would do him the most good electorally, President Clinton decided to go back to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where, as we used to say when Dwight D. Eisenhower was President, he can play golf with his rich friends...
Unlike President Eisenhower's golfing partners, the people President Clinton will play golf with in Martha's Vineyard may be rich from movie deals or from Washington law firms rather than rich from CEO salaries, but they're still rich. The voters are aware that none of those guys are lined up at a national park in August, waiting for their turn to sleep on the ground...
When Clinton went West, he managed to find a golf course. In Morris' view, press pictures of Clinton on the links negated all the good done by pictures of the President around the campfire. Golf still has a strong association with rich people--although as a practical matter, the people sitting around a campfire with a vacationing President are also likely to be rich...
...make me nostalgic for the Administration that preceded it, but at this time of year, I do find myself missing George H.W. Bush, who was without tension in matters such as where one should summer. He went to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he had always gone. And there he played golf with his rich friends...
...Hogan did not laugh. He did not joke. He did not smile. In his trademark white hat, Hogan walked deliberately from shot to shot, chain-smoking. And he hit the ball, cleanly, precisely, again and again, completely a craftsman of each swing and of each round. "Ben Hogan personified golf for many of us," said Professional Golfers' Association Tour commissioner Tim Finchem. "Perhaps no other player had the same impact on the way people approached playing the game." And yet no player today is what Hogan was every day: always the most competitive, the most serious, the most driven player...