Presidential Personal Travel

[Ernie]

Is there any website that lists US presidents and how much they cost taxpayers for personal travel while in office, in today's dollars? The last 10 presidents would be sufficient for what I am looking for.

[Josh]

Nearly all of the cost is for security, which became a priority after Presidents started getting assassinated.

[Grace]

Is there any website that lists US presidents and how much they cost taxpayers for personal travel while in office, in today's dollars? The last 10 presidents would be sufficient for what I am looking for.

Wikipedia has this, but doesn't go back as far as 10 presidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... _vacations

[ohio jones]

Nearly all of the cost is for security, which became a priority after Presidents started getting assassinated.

Well yes, the Secret Service was established in 1865, but as an anti-counterfeit unit. Not until after the third of the four assassinations did the government take Presidential security seriously enough to permanently assign an agency to the task. Security has increased substantially in the last 60 years for reasons that have little to do with JFK (or Reagan for that matter).

With tech advances now allowing ordinary people to work from anywhere, let alone Presidents who have had at least some of those capabilities for a while, it's getting more difficult to determine what travel is actually personal. Just being away from the White House doesn't necessarily qualify.