Having enjoyed the JFK Library we drove across Massachusetts into New York on our way to Hyde Park and the  Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.  We arrived in the morning and went to the ‘Welcome Center”.  The library is on the old Roosevelt Estate that had been developed

Having just spent a few wonderful days with Aunt Margaret and Uncle Bill on Cape Cod we drove into Boston for our visit to The John F Kennedy Presidential Library.  The building and location  are beautiful.  We entered with great expectations and were a little put off by the attitude

We visited the Richard M. Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Californi, where President Nixon was born and was buried in 1994 on the grounds of the Library, next to his wife Patricia.  We discussed as we went through the museum and library that it was John’s first time to vote

We drove from Malibu over the coastal mountain roads to Simi Valley, sometimes at 15 MPH due to the curves in the roads. It was fun to look at the homes of the rich and famous, but nothing really prepared us for the entrance drive and view of the Reagan

Saturday afternoon we arrived at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas. This is such a peaceful about beautiful smaller town about 3 hours east of Kansas City. “Dwight David Eisenhower was born the year the US census pronounced the frontier closed and died the year man walked on the moon.

Our stop by the Truman Library was such a pleasant and educational experience.  We all had both our World and United States History courses in college and high school, but unfortunately unless you were a history and political history buff many of us did not learn the details of our