Monday, August 18th - Kansas
Today we traveled through Kansas on our way to Colorado...
Along the way, we stopped in Abilene to visit the boyhood home of Dwight D. Eisenhower...
The campus includes the burial places of him and his wife and one of their sons...
Then it was on to the Eisenhower Presidential Museum...
Inside the museum, there was an excellent exhibit on his life in school, the military, and the presidency... there was also a temporary exhibit on all of the US Presidents... They had Billy's Saxophone on display in the same case with the jacket that President Bush wore when he visited the rescue workers at Ground Zero in NYC... go figure!
This was an interesting exhibit of a gold plated ball that Kruschev sent to President Eisenhower that he claimed was an exact replica of one that the Russians had supposedly dropped on the moon... two days after leaving earth... It took our Saturn V rocket four days to get to the moon!
This is the letter that came with the ball... Cold War politics at their best!
Next we visited the Presidential Library across the courtyard... It is a research library so there was not much to see in the amount of time that we had to spend there... I would love to live close by so I could see the hundreds of thousannds of photographs from the Eisenhower era that are archived there.
In the center of the courtyard is this statue of General Eisenhower with the slogan "Champion Of Peace".
This is a very nice Presidential Museum and I am glad we were able to visit this very quiet and quaint Kansas town.
We saw lots of these oil rigs as we crossed the plains...
Debra took this shot of the sun as it set tonight...
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