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I don't have a complete list of those presidents that were at other places than Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day but here are some recent times when that was the case:
-President Ronald Reagan was in office for eight years and only went to Arlington four times. In 1981 he was recovering from being shot. In 1983 he was in Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1988 he was in Moscow.
-President George H. W. Bush was in office for four years and never went to Arlington once. He was in Maine three of those times and in Rome the fourth time.
-In 2002 President George W. Bush was at Normandy in France on Memorial Day.
-President Barack Obama was in Chicago in 2010.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoIt is traditional for the President of the United States to lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. But there have been several US Presidents that have not been able to be there to do that. In just the last 30 years the Presidents who have not done so are:
-Ronald Reagan on 4 occasions during his 8 years in office. He sent various other dignitaries in his place including Vice-President George H. W. Bush, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Thayer and Navy Secretary James Webb.
-George H. W. Bush on 4 occasions during his 4 years in office. He sent Vice-President Dan Quayle in his place.
-George W. Bush in 2002. He sent Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz in his place.
-Barack Obama in 2010. He sent Vice-President Joe Biden in his place.
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The president and his family decided to spend the long Memorial Day holiday weekend at their Chicago residence, where they hadn't been in more than a year. The president was scheduled to return to the White House on Monday after paying respects to the nation's war dead during Memorial Day observances at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill., south of Chicago. The ceremony was cancelled, however, because of stormy weather and lightning. Some veterans groups criticized Obama for not attending the traditional wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Obama helped lay a wreath at Arlington for Memorial Day 2009, but Vice President Joe Biden attended the 2010 ceremony in the president's absence.
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