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Obama's summer vacation by the numbers

The Philippine Star

After two weeks away from the White House, President Barack Obama's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, ends late yesterday. A look, by the numbers, at how Obama spent the time while juggling his responsibilities as president, including monitoring the situations in Iraq and in Ferguson, Missouri:

— 14: days, all or part, spent on the island

— 9: golf outings

— 2: golf courses played

— 1: beach outing, with Michelle Obama and daughter Malia

— 1: bike ride, with Mrs. Obama and Malia

— 1: fundraiser headlined, for Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

— 1: birthday parties attended, for wife of Democratic powerbroker Vernon Jordan

— 1: interactions with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton while on the island, at the Jordan birthday party

— 1: jazz concert attended, with Mrs. Obama

— 1: fireworks show attended, with Mrs. Obama, Malia and Sasha

— 4: statements delivered to the media, including one from the White House

— 3: issues addressed during statements (Iraq; Ferguson, Missouri; slain American journalist James Foley)

— 9: foreign leaders called from vacation home (German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko)

— 3: disaster declarations issued (North Dakota, Tennessee, Washington state)

— 4: dinners out (including three at restaurants and one at the home of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett)

— 1: hike, with Mrs. Obama

— 1: elected officials Obama dined with (at vacation home, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick)

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CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER

DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE

DEVAL PATRICK

FERGUSON

GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL

IRAQI PRIME MINISTER

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

MRS. OBAMA

OBAMA

WHITE HOUSE

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