{"id":2540,"date":"2012-04-24T21:20:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T03:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonegate.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2012-06-02T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T23:38:34","slug":"history-of-presidents-yellowstone-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonegate.com\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"A look back at U.S. presidents in Yellowstone Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Just for Fun, we featured an excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt’s account of an elk hunting trip just south of Yellowstone National Park<\/a>. In keeping with the theme of presidents in Yellowstone, here’s look back at a 2009 trip by President Barack Obama to \u00a0the park.<\/p>\n

You’ll also see some archival footage of Presidents Ford, Clinton, Carter, Roosevelt (both of them) and other chief executives in the park, plus background from Yellowstone<\/a> historian Lee Whittlesey, filmmaker Ken Burns and others.<\/p>\n

From the White House Blog:<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2009, President Obama took his family to Yellowstone National Park. The President had first visited the park on a summer-long cross country trip\u00a0he took as a young boy with his mother, grandmother and sister, who joined him this time as well. Take a look and see for yourself why he remembers his days in Yellowstone [as] the highlight of that vacation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n