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There has been a lot of interest in the conference here at Sunnylands, the Annenberg estate turned conference center.

We wondered about the weather for them.

It has been reasonably hot the last few days and so their outdoors activities had to be a bit curtailed. No sitting in the sun.

But yesterday was breezy and quite pleasant and we went out a few times and sat on the grass ourselves. A favorite Booker routine during the day.

Mr. Obama planned to stay another night at Sunnylands. After Mr. Xi’s departure, he golfed on the estate’s nine-hole course — one Republican presidents since Dwight D. Eisenhower have played — with three friends from his high-school days in Hawaii, despite temperatures exceeding 100 degrees.

Imagine. Your own golf course in the back yard. Annenberg was a publishing tycoon, TVGuide and The Racing Form is where he started.

The plane, Air Force One's presence here has caused a goodly stir. A lot of people just going to see it and getting that lift I mentioned yesterday.

Incidentally, the mountains were gorgeous yesterday. Musty, tall and full of the purple blue color. When they look like a fantastic painting but are the real thing.

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