Bush's Upcoming Vacation Only Rivals Nixon's Last Vacation in Length

Five weeks. Even longer than he was on vacation the summer of all the warnings before 9/11 occurred a few days after Bush finally came back.

In presidential history, the only single prez vacation almost that long was Nixon's last vacation before he ran from office before he was impeached. I'd love to see that precedent in effect here, of course.

Some statistic I read awhile back - and by a fairly Bush friendly publication - said that if you add up all of Bush's 4 day weekends and vacation times and don't count all the rest of the time he's unavailable, Bush works an average 2.2 workday week. He also keeps fewer hours per workday of any president.

Gee, how much vacation time do you get? My last one was in 1995.