Only one more to see!

...Visited Nixon's Museum today..spent about 4 hours there!..It is a one floor sprawling, larger than we expected attractively presented Museum..with many knowledgeable and pleasant docents..It nis the most recent of the National Archiv Museums opened...began as privately built and funded as many of the others were..and then accepted officially for support by the National Archives....Saw a very well done documentary in a very comfortable large movie theater... visited many large chambers of exhibits, again tastefully and artfully presented...learned a good deal about his Presidency...raised some questions in both of us by presenting information that we were not aware of previously...saw where he became a leader in many things he pursued prior to his political career....Saw the House he was born in and lived until about 9..and toured it...all original furnishings n..was originally in a farm area...viewed his early family life...recognized that they were Quakers...enlisted and became Officer in Navy...Had one large exhibit about his "China Connection"...His election campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas was shown..and his speech while being selected as Eisenhowers Vice President and being accused of illegal fund raising...and his role in the Middle East as well as Vietnam....Most of this information was clouded in our minds by the stigma of his Watergate episode...It raised questions...that I will have to sort out subsequently..too soon to pass judgement now!
His burial site is right adjacent to his birth home in a lovely garden...black granite headstones for he and Pat...and close by is the Helicopter he used...

We also attended a very nice huge Symphonic Band Concert in a replica of the White House that was invigorating Patriotic music,,,was exciting....Bought gangs of books...drove to an other hotel..will see Getty Art Museum tomorrow and then head for airport to fly back to Houston..pick up the van and start heading HOME...SAWrkansas next stop!..see you then!