Presidents in New York

This was a historic day for us - we visited not one, but two, Presidential Historic Sites. Our first stop was in Hyde Park, NY where we visited the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. As proof, here's a picture of Susan with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt relaxing in the fresh air. We also toured Springwood, home of FDR. The tour was most interesting and, besides the usual home stuff, we saw some of the things FDR used to hide his disability (he contracted Polio at age 29 and was paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life). His major contribution to us was Social Security - for which we'll be forever grateful since, without it, we wouldn't be here now.

Then we drove up to Kinderhook, NY to visit the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site. There we toured Lindenwald, where Van Buren lived after being our eighth President. Here is a picture of Susan with another dead President - this one was taken in downtown Kinderhook.