Berset with beard, Berlusconi in swimsuit: politicians on vacation

Hello, Mr. President!

Summer vacation. Let your soul dangle a little. Daily shaving of the face can also take a break. But the Swiss president is not the only top politician to take a break this summer. For example, there would…

… the couple Helmut and Hannelore Kohl with fawn, summer 1994 in St. Gilgen, Austria:

Silvio Berlusconi, 1984 in Hammamet, Tunisia:

Pull in your stomach, Silvio!

And here with his friend Vladi Putin, 2003 in Sardinia:

Summer vacation with Putin? That can only mean one thing:

Precisely! Topless Vladimir with horse (photo from 2009).

Okay. But here are some fun vacation photos — including beach love hearts — of Michelle and Barack:

During his presidency, Obama repeatedly vacationed in Hawaii. He liked to go swimming near his hometown (photo from 2012)…

…and to the local ice cream shop, eh shaved ice to buy for the family (photo from 2010).

French President Nicolas Sarkozy with his wife Carla Bruni, 2007 in Giza, Egypt:

Chancellor Angela Merkel during the 2013 summer vacation on Ischia:

2002: British Prime Minister Tony Blair with wife Cherie and son Leo, who is just tired, in Venerque, France.

August 2022: Shortly after announcing his resignation, but still as Prime Minister and in the midst of an acute cost-of-living crisis in Britain, Boris Johnson treats himself to a beach holiday in Greece.

Summer 1962: U.S. President John F. Kennedy aboard a Coast Guard yacht near Rhode Island.

1966: Axel Springer Jr. photographs one. D. Konrad Adenauer, flanked by the painter Oskar Kokoschka and his wife Olda, in Cadenabbia on Lake Como.

Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU and Head of State of the Soviet Union, on summer vacation in Crimea, 1977:

And 1982:

Because the Bundeswehr was to be deployed in Macedonia at the same time, these holiday photos in 2002 cost Rudolf Scharping the position of German Defense Minister:

The later German Chancellor (at the time of the photo, 1965, still mayor of Berlin) after an apparently successful fishing trip in Sarasota, Florida:

Richard Nixon, former US Vice President and later President, arrives in Geneva for his summer vacation, 1963:

Strictly speaking not a holiday photo, but we still wanted to show this snapshot of Federal President Sämi Schmid, who photographed Indian President Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam in Interlaken in 2005:

Bon jour. French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac is on summer vacation in Auron, France, 1974:

The war is over. Time to treat yourself to a well-deserved summer break: Winston Churchill in 1946 on Lake Geneva.

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