

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A newly renovated Anderson Cottage at the Old Soldier's Home is also known as Lincoln's Cottage in Washington. For three summers Abraham Lincoln and his family retreated to the cottage in a military complex on the outskirts of Washington. It is believed he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation there, and this is where he heard the news of the Union victory at Gettysburg. Jacquelyn Martin/AP/FILE
CALVIN COOLIDGE: In Superior, Wis., in 1928, President Coolidge shoots at clay pigeons at his vacation home, hitting 29 out of 37. AP/FILE
HERBERT HOOVER: President Hoover laughs as he catches one of five large sailfish he caught on his vacation trip aboard the Sequoia in Florida in 1933. AP/FILE
FDR: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt talks with his ambassador-at-large, Norman H. Davis (l.), about the Geneva disarmament conference while vacationing aboard the Amberjack II at Lakeman Bay, Maine, in 1933. AP/FILE
HARRY TRUMAN: In 1949, President Truman holds a vacation press conference in Key West, Fla., while surrounded by aides and newsmen on Little White House Lawn. AP/FILE
DWIGHT EISENHOWER: In this 1957 photo, President Eisenhower relaxes at the 18th hole during a golf game in Newport, R.I. Henry Burroughs/AP/FILE
GERALD FORD: President Ford plays golf during a working vacation on Mackinac Island in Michigan in 1975. White House Photograph Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library/AP/FILE
GEORGE H.W. BUSH: Bush Sr. preferred to vacation in Maine, often in Bar Harbor and at the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, a onetime mecca for fishing and shipbuilding. Bush spent much of his childhood there as well. The compound has been a family retreat for more than a century. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom/FILE
BILL CLINTON: In Vineyard Sound off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in 1993, President Clinton waves from the top of the Relemar with Jackie Kennedy Onassis (center r.) and other Clinton and Kennedy family members while on a lunchtime cruise. The Clintons were island regulars, vacationing on the Vineyard throughout Clinton's presidency. Charles Krupa/AP/FILE
GEORGE W. BUSH: President Bush drives his pickup truck at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in 2002. The president was on vacation there for nearly a month. At Crawford, Bush said, 'I'm able to clear my mind and it helps me put it all in perspective.' Eric Draper/The White House/AP/FILE
BARACK OBAMA: Barack Obama, then a presidential candidate, walks down Kailua Beach in Kailua, Hawaii, with his daughters in 2008. Stephan Savoia/AP/FILE
BARACK OBAMA: The Obamas step off of Air Force One upon arriving at Cape Cod Coast Guard Air Station in Massachusetts on Sunday before going to Martha's Vineyard for their week-long vacation in 2009. The Obamas stayed at Blue Heron Farm in West Tisbury, Mass. Jason Reed/Reuters
President Barack Obama spends day at a private beach in Edgartown, Massachusetts, with First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia (not pictured) while vacationing on Martha's Vinyard on Aug. 28, 2010. Pete Souza/White House/Newscom/File
President Obama golfs on the 17th fairway on the Klipper golf course on Marine Corps Base Hawaii while he is on Christmas vacation in Kailua, Hawaii, December 23, 2010. Hugh Gentry/Reuters
President Obama departs the gym at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, Hawaii on the first day of his vacation December 23, 2010. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
President Obama has a lei around his neck as he talks with Senator Daniel Okaka (c.) and Rep. Mazie Hirono (r.) upon his arrival in Hawaii for a vacation Dec. 22, 2010. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters