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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (168429)	8/7/2001 12:44:54 PM
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To: jlallen who wrote (168429)	8/7/2001 2:08:28 PM
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Bush Defends Spending Month on Vacation By Steve Holland WACO, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush on Tuesday launched into a vigorous defense of his decision to spend a month on vacation away from Washington as a poll reported a solid majority of Americans think 30 days is too long. ``Washington D.C. is a fine place, and I'm honored to be working in the Oval Office and staying in the compound there. But I'm the kind of person that needs to get outdoors ... It keeps my mind whole, keeps my spirits up,'' Bush told reporters. He was speaking shortly after daybreak as he prepared to tee off on a round of golf at Ridgewood Country Club, the first time he has emerged from his Prairie Chapel ranch since arriving in sun-stroked central Texas last Saturday. A USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll released on Monday said 55 percent of Americans surveyed believe Bush's vacation is too long, compared to 42 percent who believe it is not. Bush insisted his is a working vacation, that he is working on decisions he is facing on immigration and preparing for Mexican President Vicente Fox's state visit to Washington on Sept. 4-5. He has been talking daily to top aides back in Washington. ``I'm working on a lot of issues -- national security matters,'' he said. He declined to say if he was close to making his long-awaited announcement on the controversial subject of whether to allow federal funds to be spent on embryonic stem cell research. He is expected to do so before ending his holiday on Labor Day. By the time he returns to the White House, Bush will have spent almost two months of his presidency at the ranch. This is the seventh visit since his inauguration on Jan. 20. The 30-day trip, billed by the White House as a ``working vacation,'' is believed to be the longest presidential absence from the White House since Richard Nixon's presidency in the early 1970s. IMPROVEMENTS ON THE RANCH The White House billed Bush's vacation as an event-filled ''Home to the Heartland'' tour but so far it has simply been quiet time at home. Bush said he had been reading books, including David McCullough's biography of John Adams, and doing chores around his 1,600-acre ranch. ``I think it's important for people to get outside and to work. I'm making a lot of improvements on the ranch, and I find that to be a good part of keeping me a balanced person,'' said Bush. He scoffed at a question about the withering heat, which has been hitting 100 degrees Fahrenheit consistently in recent days. ``This is Texas. I know a lot of you wish you were in the East Coast, lounging on the beaches, sucking in the salt air. But when you're from Texas, and love Texas, this is where you come home. This is my home. We built a house in the Crawford area. It'll be the house where I live in for the rest of my life. And I like my own home. And I don't mind the heat,'' he said. But Bush, a former two-term governor of Texas, said he did not feel the political heat here like he did back in Washington. ``Well I'm among friends in Texas. I think the people of Texas know me, they know what I'm like, they know I can make decisions, they know I'm a person who stands on principle, I do what I think is right. And so there's no political heat here. I'm among friends, and it doesn't matter whether they are Democrats or Republicans. Here in Texas, the people and I got along really well,'' he said. Washington, he said, is ``a lot more partisan'' and ``people up there just like to dig in and fight.'' But he predicted that ''eventually over time if I stay persistent that we'll erode that intransigency in Washington, D.C.''