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http://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/former-president-truman-visits.htmthis: Sounds like he did vacation there often. (As well as in Key West...) I'd like to visit the Truman Library some day.
From August 16 to September 2, 1946, President Truman tried to rest by sailing to Hamilton, Bermuda. Unfortunately for the President, rough seas left him seasick and not too rested. By late fall, the President had developed a lingering cold that seemed to be getting worse. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, having just inspected the Key West Naval Station, suggested Quarters A in Key West as a secure, warm retreat. The President came for a week of relaxation and promised to return. Return he did for a total of eleven presidential working vacations and five post- presidential trips. Truman claimed Key West was his second favorite place on earth, only surpassed by his hometown of Independence, Missouri.
And I hope you get to see the Truman Library one day. It is an amazingly candid, honest look at the man I think was the best president since Lincoln. Today? He'd be a Republican.