"How many games of golf did your President play?"

That depends on which President you're talking about. I don't know of any President who went golfing when there was a major emergency going on. With the possible exception within the past few years of George W. Bush. But as far as I know, he wasn't that much into golf. He did start a totally unnecessary and illegal war with Iraq, then hopped aboard Air Force One and flew (at the taxpayers' expense) down to his ranch in Crawford, Texas to cut brush (really essential to the good of the nation, of course. . . .).

'. . . who gives a flying fuck what they do in their spare time."

I believe that one of the emperor Nero's main niches in history is "fiddling while Rome burned." Whether they can do anything concrete or not, it's just plain bad PR to run out and play while something dire is going on. Shows a certain "What? Me worry?" attitude.

On the two bore-holes matter:   I've heard and read that from a number of sources. I'll try to find you some documentary proof—assuming you will actually accept an authoritative source or two.

Don Firth