Bill Clinton at Sea Island this week
Photo credit: Sea Island Resorts
Former President Bill Clinton has been beautifying Georgia’s coast this week, planting a tree on the grounds at Sea Island.
The five-star resort on the private island off St. Simons Island posted this photograph showing Clinton, who visited to play golf and stayed at The Cloister, hard at work. He was following in the footsteps of other presidential arborists, according to information posted with the photo:
“President Bill Clinton becomes the seventh U.S. president to participate in the time-honored tradition of planting a live oak tree at Sea Island on August 2. The planting of a live oak, the state tree of Georgia and the symbol for strength, has been a meaningful way to commemorate special guests of the resort since President Calvin Coolidge visited Sea Island in 1928.”
Other presidents and dignitaries leaving a leafy legacy on the island: President Dwight Eisenhower (in 1946); Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard (in 1952); President Gerald Ford (in 1979); President Jimmy Carter (in 1981); President George H.W. Bush (in 1991) former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (in 1994); President George W. Bush (in 2004); and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (in 2004).
In addition, the Sea Island Gardening Group planted an oak to commemorate the G8 visit to Sea Island by five first ladies, including Laura Bush, Cherie Blair of the United Kingdom, Bernadette Chirac of France, Sheila Martin of Canada, and Ludmilla Putin of the Russian Federation.
Additional live oaks on the grounds of The Cloister honor Georgia founder James Oglethorpe, the 50th anniversary of The Cloister, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Jones, Sr., and the Sea Island Employees in celebration of the 2000 Millennium. All trees are live oaks, except the tree honoring James Oglethorpe, which is an English oak grown from an acorn at his estate in England.
Thanks to marketing director Merry Tipton for the history lesson!
- Jennifer Brett/The Buzz/jbrett@ajc.com
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37 comments Add your comment
Rhett Butler
August 3rd, 2012
2:16 pm
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
Joe
August 3rd, 2012
2:30 pm
Enter your comments here
Papa Pink
August 3rd, 2012
2:31 pm
I don’t think throwing a shovel of dirt on a tree ater it was planted by others qualifies him as an arborists. Hopefully he took the grounds crew to McDonalds for lunch after they planted the tree for his photo moment.
Joe
August 3rd, 2012
2:32 pm
That tree is going to grow very fast with all the fertilizer coming out of old bill’s mouth.
JB
August 3rd, 2012
2:47 pm
If you live down that way, lock up your daughter,sister, wife, mother etc. up. fair warning. Leopard usually don’t change his spots.
Atlanta native
August 3rd, 2012
3:03 pm
Just keep him away from our best 5 star jewel…Cumberland Island
St Simons - we're on Island time
August 3rd, 2012
3:05 pm
saw him at ********
we love you, Big Dog
um, the mrs is outta town this week, yeah
Jim S.
August 3rd, 2012
3:40 pm
Thanks for the story. It’s a good tradition. Unlike these apparent silly partisan hacks who still can’t chill with the hate, I’m happy for any of our Presidents and former Presidents to participate in such a tradition in our beloved State of Georgia. Good grief.
John C.
August 3rd, 2012
4:24 pm
Glad to see President Clinton visited Ga. and planted the Oak tree. He is always welcomed in Georgia. He did a good job as president. I wish we had his economy today. Best to him. JC
Hopper
August 3rd, 2012
4:24 pm
Ol’ Bill looks pretty trim. Not been eating many Big Macs…
News Flash
August 3rd, 2012
4:31 pm
Planting trees at Sea Island? Seriously? What a sacrifice.
El Mongol
August 3rd, 2012
4:57 pm
Just another example of the evil rich…
Larry
August 3rd, 2012
5:35 pm
Good economy under Slick Willie…how utterly ignorant.
That economy was erected in the 12 years prior by President Reagan and George Bush…Willie just surfed the wave built before him while getting his jollies from a gullable, imature young intern.
More so, it took Newt and the republican controlled congress to force this degenerate to sign into law the debt ending “contract with America.”
Don’t be stupid when you type something.
richard
August 3rd, 2012
6:23 pm
why wasn’t i invited in ‘72? was it because i had gone to china or was it the tapes? those damn tapes. i was told they were used in the beginning of a mission impossible episode and were destroyed. those damn tapes……
BitterEXdemocrackkk
August 3rd, 2012
6:40 pm
Will Hitlary appear with Billary on the DNC stage in Charlotte next month? Can you BELIEVE Clinton will endorse Ohblunder? I don’t…
My Two Cents
August 3rd, 2012
6:59 pm
Now that the tree is planted we are ready for the rest of the story….
Bill Jones layed an Egg
August 3rd, 2012
6:59 pm
The Jones family claims be the Island’s royalty when in fact it was their careless overspending that sent the island into a downward spirol
Foxhunter
August 3rd, 2012
9:09 pm
Uh, Larry. Yeah, you at 5:35. You might be the ignorant one here. Methinks you hold the Contract with America in your fantasy league pocket along side your Saint Ronny card. The ‘Contract’ never saved a dime.
To wit, http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/mind-gop-pussycats.
Foxhunter
August 3rd, 2012
9:11 pm
Larry said, “Don’t be stupid when you type something.”
Read the following and then get back to us on not being stupid whilst typing.
cato.org/publications/commentary/mind-gop-pussycats
AtlJack
August 3rd, 2012
10:35 pm
“Larry” you are a genius. So Clinton is not responsible for the economy during his 8 year term;
but I’m positive that you think Obama is 100 per cent responsible for today’s economy and that the 8 – G.W. Bush years had nothing to do with it despite Bush having the worst job creation of any President since Hoover.
You right wing guys are scary with your logic.
Just Say No
August 3rd, 2012
11:44 pm
VOTE 2012
I’ll keep my FREEDOM
I’ll keep my CASH
I’ll keep my GUN
YOU KEEP THE CHANGE!!!
Re-elect Obama!
August 4th, 2012
1:04 am
Four More Years!
Better than that other loser.
DevilDog Oz
August 4th, 2012
1:19 am
Trees? I thought Clinton was much more into bushes?
As I See It
August 4th, 2012
7:07 am
LOVE Bill Clinton. And even all of you republican, right-wing folk had the best years of your life under his administration!!!!!
He left the country in great shape, only to have that doofus squander every advance Clinton made. If he could run again, he’d win in a mighty way, hands down…and you know it.
Sobelle
August 4th, 2012
7:13 am
I remember those years President Clinton was in office. He made some “personal” mistakes which did not in any way affect his leadership until the repubs made a big issue of it. We made money, we had plenty, we were on the way to becoming close to a million for our retirement when he held office. Those were the good ol’ days. Now we’re retired and my husband of 73 years still has to work so we can just live. Thanks to the fat cats, they took over $100,000 of our retirement in all their speculation and manuverings of the markets. And the repubs want to reward them for it by cutting their taxes! Give me a break!
shovelready
August 4th, 2012
7:32 am
Is this one of those shovel ready jobs Obama has been talking about?
BLynn
August 4th, 2012
8:02 am
In reference to Larry’s comment : Glad to see you’re back – thought you were dead – say hello to Moe & Curly for me…oh Shemp too & that mutt dog that could make a ? mark with his tail.
Ron
August 4th, 2012
8:40 am
Larry, you crack me up. I’m still laughing.
Reality anyone?
August 4th, 2012
9:13 am
what was the budget deficit when Bill Clinton left office? And then what was the budget deficit when Dubya left office?
Larry, can you answer that for me?
Not Disappointed!
August 4th, 2012
10:28 am
Mega Cool!
One
August 4th, 2012
11:13 am
Clinton repealed the Glass- Steagall Act of 1933 in 1999, with the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act.
Wall Street became Las Vegas and you know the rest………….period. End of Story !
Obama All The Way!
August 4th, 2012
1:22 pm
Romney looks like a dork, walks like a dork and talks like a dork.
Therefore, he’s a dork.
Four More Years, Mr. President!
Pippa's hiney
August 4th, 2012
1:35 pm
What else is he planting?
Chuck Allison
August 4th, 2012
5:24 pm
After the Monica Lewinsky affair, I can’t understand why Bill Clinton is allowed in polite company. He was the biggest embarassment to ever befall our nation, worse even than Barney Frank. The fact that he is accepted serves as evidence of the overall moral decline of our nation. The fact that he will headline the DNC convention only serves to show the depths to which that party has fallen since Harry Truman.
San
August 5th, 2012
1:40 am
President William Jefferson Clinton is loved the World over. He was a great President while in office, even with is indiscretions. Remembering back, the Republicans and cohorts were relentless on their attacks on Clinton but in spite of it all, he overcame his problems and became one of our best Presidents. The one bill he should not have signed was the Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act A Republican, Phil Graham(should have been a heads up right there) wrote the bill. Clinton signed the bill in Dec 1999 and George W. Bush was coming into office in January 2000. Clinton said he regrets ever signing the repeal of Glass-Steagall. You know somethings fishy, with a bill, when it comes up in December when all of congress can’t wait to get out the door and of course no one probably read it, ha! Believe me, some Republicans and the banksters knew exactly what would happen with the repeal of this bill and they were licking their chops. Well, most of us are paying for this Republican caused fiasco now, so lets hope we have learned our lesson, but probably not!
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rod
August 6th, 2012
6:12 pm
Sobel \talk abount fat cats your buddy Billy Boy has 30 or 40 million in the bank so cry to someone who gives a crap