...left for Cincinnati after breakfast and reached it about 10AM....Visited the home and Museum for William A. Taft...The home was built by his father who was also quite an able Politician..His fathers name was Alfonso and left quite a legacy for his son, the President to attempt to equal...He was extremely wealthy and helped William and his nsiblings receive the best education possible....The father had been married previously and William was a child of his 2nd marriage....William was close friend of Teddy Roosevelt and his VP...When Teddy's term was over ...he assisted Taft to become President as member of Republican Party...Roosevelt went to Africa on safari...and upon his return found that Taft did not follow the policies that Roosevelt had set...They became serious enemies...and Roosevelt decided to run again for President..but thyeepublican Party did not want him, and the nominated Bryan unstead....Teddy then formed a 3rd party...called the "Bull Moose Party" which served to divide the Republicans with the result being that the Democrat candidate, Woodrow Wilson won in a shoo-in!
Taft was the biggest President..6ft 2 inch and 330 lbs!..He was also first to throw out a baseball to start the season...and his wife was the first nto plant the Japanese Cherry Trees near the Washington Monument!...bought several more books....and left to drive to Loisville, Kentucky!
Arrived in afternoon to the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery...He and his wife are buried there and he has a monument with a statue of him atop...It is a Military cemetery with some WW I veterans and many more WW II and Korean veterans buried there,,,All graves have small uniform sized headstones in precision like lines...An interesting fact is that the reverse side of the headstone has the veterans spouse identified on it and her grave is directly behind the veterans...^This was the site of the original homestead....
We left to drive then...back to Indiana and arrived just before closing at the fabulous home of William Henry Harrison....
The woman docent was gracious enough to remain open to allow us a sufficient time for our tour...He and his family lived in tyhe house called "Grouseland" for about 12 years.....It is amazing that altho he only was President for a little more than a mo0nth, succumbing to pneumonia after receiving a chill while giving his inaugural address...that he was able to make such an impact in Presidential history...We watched a very interesting biographical video presentatioon...took lots of pictures....and bought some more books!
An interesting anecdote was that President John Adams had appointed him as Governor of the entire Northwest Province and it was William Henry Harrison who arranged for Lewis and Clark to do their very famous exploration....More to come....in the book...!
By this time daras and I felt that we had done enough...so suitablr lodging and dinner were sought.....Tomorrow is Indianopolis!
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