By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer
President Barack Obama left the White House on Friday for a 10-day vacation, taking with him the beloved family dog and leaving behind an acrimonious debate about a proposed overhaul of the nation's health care system.
Obama left the White House's South Lawn by Marine helicopter early in the afternoon for the presidential retreat at Maryland's Camp David. He and his family then head on Sunday morning to Massachusetts' Martha's Vineyard, where they will stay at a private 28-acre estate that rents for $35,000 a week. They are expected to keep mostly to themselves.
"I think he's going to spend a decent part of his time relaxing with his family," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "There are no official events scheduled in the week ahead. I anticipate that he'll play golf a number of times."
But will be play golf with Tiger Woods, as rumored?
"I have no idea if he's going to golf with Tiger Woods," Gibbs demurred in the briefing room; the president simply flashed a grin and said as he strode across the South Lawn that he planned to play a lot of golf.
It's just one piece of the frenzy over the first family's first vacation in office. Will he visit ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.? (No plans yet, aides say.) Will he attend the rumored wedding of former first daughter Chelsea Clinton on the Vineyard? (No comment from the White House; denials of a wedding from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.) Will Michelle Obama again wear shorts that caught the eye of the fashion world? (No comment on her wardrobe from the first lady's East Wing.)
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