One weekend in June we decided to explore some of the Presidential memorials we hadn't had a chance to see yet. In case you didn't know it, not all of them are as big as the Jefferson, Lincoln, or Washington memorials, or in as prominent a location. Nope, some of them are downright inauspicious or off the beaten path.
Let's start with LBJ. The poor guy, seems like he really didn't have a lot of backers for a big, ostentatious memorial. Nope, he got the Lyndon Baines Memorial Grove ( a stand of pine trees) and a hunk of granite. Granted, it is a big hunk of granite, from Texas, but it is just a big hunk of rock down near Reagan Airport.
James Buchanan - quick, what are his top three accomplishments??? James got a good sized statue in a park several miles north of the White House. Nice, but no where near the capitol mall.
Teddy Roosevelt, now he gets a huge statue and a big plaza and his own island. But to get there you have to leave the district into Arlington, cross a footbridge, and hike a few hundred yards in.
We still need to go find Reagan in the Ronald Reagan International Trade Building and Wilson in the Woodrow Wilson Center.
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