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Kentucky 2020 Day 3
President Zachary Taylor Home and Grave, Windy Hills KY
Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort KY
Historic Buffalo Trace Distillery, Frankfort KY
Lincoln Museum, Hodgenville KY
Mammoth Cave National Park
Kentucky 2020 Day 2
NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM, BOWLING GREEN KY
ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK, HODGENVILLE KY
Kentucky 2020 Day 1
So we left Virginia for a short trip around Kentucky, with a few stops in West Virginia on the way home.
CUMBERLAND GAP NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK – KY/TN/VA
THE ORIGINAL KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN, CORBIN KY
CUMBERLAND FALLS, NEAR WILLIAMSBURG KY
Woodrow Wilson
Presidential Museum, Staunton VA
Wilson earned a PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University, still the only president to have earned a PhD. He subsequently taught at Princeton University, and later was president of Princeton. He also served as governor of New Jersey for two years before winning the presidency in 1912.
President Wilson suffered several strokes, including one before he ran for President. He suffered two debilitating strokes in 1918 as president, and was largely unseen the last two years of his presidency. He required assistance when leaving the White House in 1921 to attend President Warren Harding’s inauguration.
He lived in Washington DC after he left office, and died in 1924. He is buried inside the National Cathedral in DC.
President Wilson was a racist in a big way. The first major movie ever screened at the White House was “The Birth of A Nation”, which was glorified the KKK from the Reconstruction Era. He also continued segregating the Civil Service.
After the war, President Wilson worked tirelessly to institute his “Fourteen Points” toward worldwide peace, which culminated in the creation of the League of Nations, which was a precursor to the United Nations. The League of Nations failed when the US Congress rejected it. It was a huge defeat and embarrassment for President Wilson.