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Whether acting up a dust storm or working the ranch or raising horses for polo (his team recently won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup), Jones stays rooted in the Texas soil. "Natives of my region," he says, "are heirs to a society whose language, manners, cuisine, habits of dress, transportation, ways of socializing with one another are not so removed from location as others are. We're still tied to a place. We happen to think it's important to be from some place...
...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...
...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 of his second term...