Clintons caught in summer vacation quandary

New York

FOR the past several summers, Bill and Hillary Clinton have done what New York City's moneyed residents have done for decades: they spent their vacation amid the prime beachside real estate of Long Island.

In 2011 and 2012, there was the eight-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot East Hampton rental with a heated pool that the couple took for part of August, the kind of house that typically goes for US$200,000 per month, according to local real estate listings.