Show 4A Standard-Examin- Bush schedules peacemaking visit Sunday November 20 1983 er NationalPolitics 4N -- 4 v- sr £ j'§taJV Assoc a George Bush s nine bedroom home in ei Press Maine is expected to become the summer White House Kennebunkport Bush may follow tradition KENNEBUNKPORT Maine ( AP) — If George Bush turns his family estate on a Maine peninsula into the next summer White House he will follow a tradition dating back to the nation's first president Since the days of George Washington US presidents — complete with staffs and sometimes with considerable baggage — have escaped the pressures of the presiden-- 2 cy and the oppressive heat of a Washington summer with respites m the countryside - seashore or mountains “Advisers always stress that the president get out of the White House and (away from) the kind of craziness that exists ! there" says Marvin Druker a political scientist at the University of Southern Maine in Portland “They've always been criticized for being out of Washington for extended periods of time" Druker continued but such trips give the president a break from the pressures of the job and a chance to gam a new perspective on problem-solvin- g If tradition is followed Bush’s family home in this Maine resort - town population 4500 is the most likely 1 choice as the next summer White House ! And townsfolk although chagrined about the potential for traffic jams and disruptions are eagerly awaiting the president- - elect's arrival Some speculate he may visit as soon as Thanksgiving ' Often such retreats have been presidents' private homes John F Kennedy used his - family’s compound in Hyannisport Mass I Lyndon B Johnson his sprawling ranch in I Johnson City Texas and Jimmy Carter his home in Plains Ga But Benjamin Hamson found his calm hotel in Cape May NJ in a 100-roo- President and Mrs Camp David the official presidential retreat 70 miles from Washington m the Mountains of Maryland There the Reagans have watched old movies and held of Hollywood show tunes Longer vacations have been held at the Reagans’ mountain ranch in Santa Barbara Calif where he was known to relax riding horseback even clearing brush Richard Nixon found solace and sunshine in San Clemente Calif and Key Biscay ne Fla but Gerald Ford preferred a ski resort in ail Colo during his term in of- Ca-toct- in At the end of his stay Coolidge announced to reporters that he had decided in 1928 against running for work paper Many presidents brought with them when leaving town or met with world leaders at their hideaways In 1929 Herbert Hoover discussed the Naval Limitation Disarmament Treaty with British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald at his summer White House at e camp in the Camp Rapidan a Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia The treaty was later signed and adopted as a step toward world peace fice The practice of going home for vacations began with the nation’s first president 164-acr- George Washington traveled to his Mount Vemon estate from Philadelphia — where the capital was then located — twice a year during his eight years m office according to Ann Rauscher a spokesman for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association which maintains the suburban Washington home as a museum Thomas Jefferson traveled to Monticello m Charlottesville Va whenever he could r term receiving visitors during his and wnung a mountain of letters — 55000 of which have survived Jefferson “was a workaholic wherever he was So it was a change of pace but it was not the kind of R 1 R we would associate with many presidential vacations in the modern time" Daniel P Jordan director of Monticello said of Jefferson's trips home nine-bedroo- m Hoover donated the camp to the Shenandoah National Park to be used as a weekend and summer retreat for future presidents But it was a mountain camp 70 miles from Washington that became the official weekend home for pres dents m 1942 four-yea- That year Franklin D Roosevelt had Camp David built in a heavily wooded area of Catoctin Mountain in Maryland — where the elevation kept the camp cool and its isolated high lcxa’nn provided adequate from the secuntv He called it Snangn-L- a perfect mourta r kingdom m “Lost " Kirk ar 1 Cha rs The start' ram leaders ere cadger to prcila 'i the parts a! ve ‘and well a'ter its presidential election derta- less than two weeks aco to Republican Geome - Biish But thev a’sv I -—— V s y '-- - 42V said Jes- - ! He i 1 se Jackson Jk i £1 i ‘will play no role in my decision Babb’tt that they must stop treating campa'gns tor the White House like “an extension ct a congressional start ottering campaign” and a larger vision of the Vure “We assume that what elects a senator will elect a president mat what wins the statettouse w! wm the White House" said Babbitt whose bid for the Democratic presidential nomination ended after tbe New Hampshire pr mar He said the Democm’s v in electing members ct CY'-rtand governors “makes u to swallow mat i aga - the b eeest prize lv “ derv has eluded our He said that voters regard me presidency as “about tre p-- t-- es sp u-g- eard a warn rg from former Ancona Gov Bruce I ss just equity and redistribution" and a foreign and defense policy that acknowledges that “in an imperfect world we must somet’es " prcect and use force Kirk's term as partv cha man expires n February and “e ‘’ad indicated he had no des e to sc me another four yea's But many pans leaders apparent's eager to avoid a potentally divisive battle for the pcs’ have p'eaded wrh him to sav on Asced if that included tue :n cn the natic-- al rcket k r d “Senator Bentsen d d ard tmeTor Dukaxis asxed e as tbinktrg about ad wat :o "-- ot persona! leadersb n ard To become a natera! desirv I 1 d him it was a serious i -- c s- - ard te H division ditferent from se bad set out on r d I I - ou stay c7 " spe ( pa-’- p- bs - j- Feb s “M se°'C most Iowa Demo-cni'- s w’ll be a debate cxbcct a Due’ the Iowa caucuses” sa d Bon- - e Cambell state Demo- am defen- cuar' an “Tbev e 'because tbe i ke wbat we :r' Top Democnrue leaders are be-- g nrg to debate the role of the Io a caucuses in the next presi-d- c r a! e'ection and anv resolution is months away But in the past month a roster of failed Democratic candidates has paraded through the state in the past -- 1 momh uO? vc a- -d candidates after a'l hat an e'ection is all about “The problem with charging the process is it’s something we about every four years it’s ' so leap year" said PhJ Reeder a turner Democratic Party -'k m - FINANCING AVAILABLE 100 Bill’s Meta! 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