"But when TR came into office—the youngest man ever to occupy the White House—he changed the game. With a firm understanding of how media and communications technology were transforming American politics, TR approached his vacations in the same fashion that he approached his entire presidency: as an opportunity to shape and burnish his public image. Before Teddy Roosevelt, few Americans cared what their presidents did on their own time; after TR, the country came to expect full visibility into the pastimes and leisure activities of their chief executives. Long before Bush 43 cleared brush at his ranch, TR felled trees at Sagamore Hill. Before Obama read Ron Chernow’s life of Washington, Roosevelt read Hay’s and Nicolay’s life of Lincoln. Before there was golf with Vernon Jordan, there was tennis with renowned Beaux-Arts artist Winty Chanler."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/teddy-roosevelt-vacations-121491.html?hp=rc4_4#.VdSWq_l_Oko
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