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|  | Escape from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! Even the President needs to take a break once in a while. TIME.com looksback at some memorable presidential vacations
Some White House press corps just luck out. Journalists assigned to Gerald Ford's vacation traveled to Martinique and got a clear view of the President, French President Valery Giscard D'Estaing and a couple of secretaries of state as they lounged in a tropical pool (1974) |  |