The Weekly Podcast: Presidents and Summer Vacations – Behind-the-scenes history with Kirk Bado
August 28, 2025
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as posted by the channelDid you have a lovely summer vacation?
Was it long enough?
Sad it's over?
You know who once had a nice, long, summer vacation?
That's right — President Dwight D. Eisenhower!
The president's Colorado vacation draws to a close. But the chief executive doesn't seem to mind as long as they keep fighting this a-way. He hooks a beauty — which gives him a nice fight before being hauled in by the hand of an experienced angler.
It's a far cry from this peaceful setting to the cares of state which await him. But when you can catch your legal limit in one morning
It makes even a presidential vacation perfect
October 1955. ... A newsreel reports on President Eisenhower fishing in Colorado. The newsreel shows the President knee deep in water ... a fishing rod ... And a fish!
For President Eisenhower, it was the enjoyable end to a summer vacation that lasted — get this — six weeks!
• Whatever happened to Presidents taking six-week-long vacations?
• Where do Presidents go now — and for how long?
• Which presidents golf… And which don't?
• And what do Presidents tell the public about their vacations?
In the latest episode of C-SPAN's podcast "The Weekly" — we find out!
... While you're returning from your vacations, we hear Presidents talking about their own vacations — and then we talk about the clips with a special guest ... America's foremost political junkie and top presidential observer ... You know him as editor of National Journal's Hotline — and you've seen and heard him on C-SPAN many times — and now he's on "The Weekly" ... Talking about the history of presidential vacations — it's Kirk Bado!
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