I said (re: Hitchens on the golf scene in "F-911"): >> Hitchens is making this up. Neither Eisenhower nor Clinton ever did >> anything like this. (BTW - Some of us will recall that Kennedy, who >> enjoyed golf, refused to be photographed with a golf club lest he appear to >> be, like Eisenhower, too unengaged and lackadaisical.) "scribe 1865" ... proper name, please! ... refers us to: > http://www.golfinnyc.com/golfing_presidents.htm where we find out that > ", golf has made its mark on the most powerful office in the world. > ... at least 15 U.S. presidents teed it up in their day. > ....Eisenhower had the first putting green built at the White House. > Bill Clinton was probably the most photographed golfing president... Indeed. But what is pure make-belief is Hitchens's idea that Eisenhower and Clinton, like Bush, used golf to show off their manhood. They were leisurely gentleman golfers, unwinding. Ever in his script, Bush is a NASCAR golfer. Stephen Straker <straker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Vancouver, B.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html