Spring Break

President Barack Obama spent last
year’s Presidents Day weekend at the White House. This year, he
lined up a trip with friends to an exclusive Florida golf course
owned by a campaign supporter.

Obama golfed today with course owner Jim Crane, U.S. Trade
Representative Ron Kirk, Chicago friend Eric Whitaker and
businessmen Anthony Chase and Milton Carroll, according to White
House spokesman Josh Earnest. Obama also played “a few holes”
with Tiger Woods’ former coach Butch Harmon, who designed the
club’s instructional facility, Earnest said.

Obama flew on Air Force One yesterday from an official
event to promote his economic proposals in his adopted hometown
of Chicago to West Palm Beach, Florida, for the weekend getaway
at the Floridian in Palm City while his wife and daughters are
on a ski vacation.

Accompanying Obama on Air Force One was Whitaker, a Chicago
friend who played golf with the president during the first
family’s August 2010 vacation on Martha’s Vineyard off the

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