very exciting day!...

arrived at Ford's Museum about 10:30 AM...located in a beautiful setting near Art Museum downtown Grand Rapids...On the outside it is a gorgeous building..fountains and waterfalls very impressive...Even nicer inside...saw a documentary about Ford in the theater...visited gift area...of course purchased ..i9ncluding books...My Library is growing by leaps and bounds!

The 2nd floor had exhibits...many, many rooms with an unbelievable amount of very exciting material;...took hundreds of pictures...Has a replica of his Oval Office which is breathtaking as well as his Cabinet room which you may enter...very authentic...It was amazing as to how much very important decisions he made during the 2 1/2 YEARS of his term...and was very impressed with him as a President and a true Patriot. His biography is for certain one of being a genuine "All American Boy".....Adopted and took name of Stepfather...Pardonede Nixon...became VP after resignation of Agnew...and President after resignation of Nixon.....'nuff said?"......There was also a large section where the exhibit of Terrorism on loan from the SPY museum in DC was for view....amazing display....and realizing he waqs offered to join several NFL football teams and deferred to go to Law School...at Yale....and was told that he mentioneed that if he were offered the same opportunity from a mAJOR lEAGUE Baseball team..he would never entered politics!....Visitede his Grave site adjacent to the Museum with the headstone already in place for his wife, Betty....Also waqs told that Bill VClinton had visitede the museum last night!...He sure gets around...wonder why?.....

Then back in the van for a long haul back to the southwestern part of Ohio to visit 3 more places tomorrow!..had dinner and found very nice motel in Amish area Farmland in Indiana about a 2 hour ride to Cincinatti (sp?)... The Ford Museum was the most impressive of the Archival supportede museums we have yet visited....'till tomorrow...au revoir....send me a note when you think about it...