Collection Presidential Retreats
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
Presidential Vacations & Retreats: President Theodore Roosevelt at Glacier Point
- Date of Work
- 1903
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Underwood & Underwood, Library of Congress
Presidential Vacations & Retreats: President Theodore Roosevelt at Glacier Point
Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, 1903. President Roosevelt exchanged the sizzle of a Washington summer for the ocean breezes of Sagamore Hill, his Oyster Bay home and forever transformed the nature of the presidential vacation.
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