“When he thinks about how he wants to spend his free time, A., playing golf, B., visiting places where he has investments and C., enhancing those investments, that was not the priority for previous presidents, but it is his vacation time," Engel said.
Donald Trump once decried the idea of presidential vacations. His Scotland trip is built around golf
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"What the vice presidential [selection] does as essentially the first presidential or executive decision by the candidate, it sets the tone for the campaign but also for what they believe their administration is going to be," said Mr. Engel, the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. "So nobody actually votes for the vice president, but the pick is extraordinarily important for the campaign."
History As It Happens: No one votes for Vice President
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