Word: kennebunkport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call came at midnight. it was Bill Clinton in Kiev. "Shouldn't you be in bed?" asked George Bush, who was in the serenity of his beloved Kennebunkport and knew a thing or two about the exigencies of summiteering. But Clinton, like hundreds of others, wanted to take the time to thank the former President for his defense of public servants and his denunciation of the outrageous language in a fund-raising letter by the National Rifle Association. In a now famous letter, Bush excoriated the N.R.A. for railing against federal agents as "jackbooted thugs ... wearing Nazi bucket helmets...
Meantime, the Bushes are fixing up their homes. At the center are the rambling family quarters in Kennebunkport, Maine. Storm repair is completed, cottages readied. There will be an apartment for them at the Texas library. And the pink brick Houston town house, which critics doubted could be built on so narrow a lot, is a functional triumph...
...bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education. The President will, it is promised, decide soon whether to name a barbarian czar to coordinate the federal effort. So as to appear calm and in control, Bush flies to Kennebunkport for a week of tennis...
...Richard Nixon spent weeks every summer at his large house by the Pacific in San Clemente (or the Western White House, as it was known) indulging in Californian luxuriance; Ronald Reagan visited his ranch in California faithfully each August, where he rode and cleared brush and chopped wood; in Kennebunkport, George Bush raced around in his cigarette boat and tended his East Coast patrician roots. When some of these Presidents spent many weeks away from Washington at these August sanctuaries, only editorialists, not the public, seemed to object. Absent from this list is Jimmy Carter, whose peanut farm left...
...days on the way back from the Tokyo summit); and Telluride, Colorado (too small). Not that the decision came easily, or could have been carried out if seven-day-advance-purchase airline tickets were a factor. Unlike most Presidents, Clinton is a man without a country house -- no + Kennebunkport or Gettysburg farm, no Pedernales or California ranch. Moreover, like most Democrats, he doesn't seem to kick back as well as Republicans. Richard Nixon had no trouble repairing to San Clemente for 31 days in one sitting, and Ronald Reagan clocked 200 days at his spread by the first year...