Show havens of other presidents ever since the days of buchanan almost every president has seen fit to flee the banks of the potomac when washington weather begins to lure the mercury to the top of the tube although the united states army began being hot weather host to chief executives in buchanann Bucha nans time and continued to do so into the regime of the dashing arthur it was because lincoln lived at the cottage just within the eagle gate of the soldiers home now well within the city of washington proper but once a distant suburb that this summer white house became famous as the lincoln cottage when grover cleveland became president however and shortly thereafter took a bride he felt that it was improper to live 0 on n the army in the summer months so he bought a place of his own called bcd oak on a high hill in the capital now known in honor of his short domicile there as clev cleveland eland park it was a plain farm house when he bought it but it soon blossomed into a comfortable home then washington was a town tow n of some people 1886 and cleveland had an unobstructed view over the whole panorama down to the potomac nac il itself when he was defeated he sold the place when reelected reflected he bought another that effectually ended the sol diers home tradition and it was really not until the time of president taft that a working summer headquarters was set bet up other presidents took vacations theodore roosevelt went home to his beloved sagamore hill on oyster bay with a secretary or two president taft went to beverly mass when president wilson went to cornish N ll II it was for rest and re pe aeration per atlon ration in 1916 he chose the imposing 1 shadow lawn in new jersey a and d by cn that time war was I 1 impending p ding a and nd hi his i staff went bilth hi him president 11 II a r d I 1 n g want to get away ile he wanted people lots of them around him also 52 cards president coolidge too it was said know what to do with a vacation but he made as geographically varied a selection ot of summer white house sites as any president first it was swampscott Swamp scott where es as one dispatch put it he was tethered to a telegraph wire As a matter of fact no telegraph wires actually entered white court the great colonial mansion perched on the rim of new En glands rockbound coast but the telephone did and he be made regular trips to near by lynn where the offices were located in 1926 he chose an adirondack camp near paul smiths one of those primitive places millionaires build in the wilderness equipped with all the comforts of a modern hotel kirkwood camp owned by irvin kirkwood a newspaper publisher was such a place the next year coolidge repaired to the black hills of south dakota where he lived in a spacious lodge among the trout streams guarded by of cavalry and making a long twice weekly journey to rapid city to attend to affairs of state and interview the press the next year h he e again went to wisconsin and on an island in a lake 28 23 miles southeast ot of superior lived in cedar lodge malting making necessary a 55 56 mile trip three times a week president hoover when he took 0 office frice almost immediately went down into his own well lined jeans and for bought Ra rapidan another mountain stronghold in the blue ridges when he left office he promptly deeded the tract to the commonwealth of virginia hoping perhaps other presidential camp fires would burn there but his successor c asor chose otherwise warm springs belongs to the state of georgia countless tho thousands u will visit it as they do hy hyde 1 e park and other local monuments shangri Sh angrl la is now a part of the national park system the next president preside nt whoever he may be may have it if he wishes without extra expense to the taxpayer but who knows he may have a dream house realization of which we need hardly begrudge him |