Word: ranches
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...President as a sportsman who lives relatively well, occasionally with a hint of aristocratic idleness. The summer retreats of past Presidents have provided a setting where they could show themselves off in this light. John F. Kennedy went to Hyannis Port and sailed in all weathers; at his ranch in Texas (the Texas White House, as it was known), Lyndon Johnson hunted deer; 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...
...that he was a poor boy who had made good and -- lest his native state forget it in the 1972 election -- that he was a Californian. Ronald Reagan -- code name "Rawhide" -- could not possibly have reinforced his image as a mythic cowboy any better than by riding at his "ranch." Bush used his powerboat, of course, to defuse accusations of wimpiness. Lacking a summer White House, Clinton misses the opportunity to burn such images into the mind of the public, which now tends to think of baggy running shorts when contemplating the sporting habits of its current leader...
...planned his vacation in a more organized and less comic fashion -- if he had lined up that condo on Hilton Head Island in March -- he would not have taken full advantage of the opportunity an August progress can provide. When columnist Stewart Alsop visited Lyndon Johnson at the L.B.J. Ranch while Johnson was President, he was driven to make the most unlikely comparison: the L.B.J. Ranch, it occurred to him, had "odd echoes of Chartwell," the country place of Winston Churchill. "Mr. Churchill was marvelously and unashamedly proud of everything about Chartwell . . ." Alsop said years later. "But he was proudest...
...yards, seem to have sniffed the new promise. Deloyt Young, manager of the world's largest freight yard, U.P.'s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, knows every inch of his eight-mile domain, a moving mosaic of thousands of cars and engines. It is hard by the old ranch where Buffalo Bill Cody assembled his Wild West show (complete with conquered Sioux Chief Sitting Bull) and sent it out on tour aboard U.P. trains. "I don't need an economist to tell me when things are good or bad," Young says as he watches for the flash of headlights...
Last week Ted Turner and Jane Fonda bought 25,000 acres of ranchland in western Montana (adding to the 100,000-plus acres they already own). Meanwhile the Tom Berenger character in Sliver says he owns a ranch in Montana too. He, Ted and Jane aren't alone...