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President Obama Is Taking a Little Break From His Vacation

US President Barack Obama waves after shopping at Bunch of Grapes bookstore with his daughters Malia and Sasha in Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on August 20, 2010. The First Family is on vacation on the Island. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
Photo: JEWEL SAMAD/2010 AFP

As many have observed, Obama did not pick the greatest time to take his two-week summer vacation. Though the president has gotten some work done on Martha’s Vineyard —  he delivered on-camera statements about Iraq and Ferguson, and called foreign leaders to discuss the situations in Ukraine and Gaza — the AP reports that he is now returning to Washington for a couple of days of “unspecified meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and other advisers.” (He’ll go back to Massachusetts on Tuesday.) The White House has declined to say what Obama plans to talk about in D.C., but it probably won’t be gossip about Hillary Clinton. 

President Obama Taking Break From Vacation