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I
am planning a MEGA-TRIP in the summer of 2007. It will take me to a total
of 23 gravesites in 9 states and over 4500 miles.
Over the 4th of July, 2007, I have to be in San Antonio, TX, so I figure;
I might as well hit a few gravesites while I’m there. We have decided
to drive, so I said great, I’ll be able to hit even more sites.
I checked out my handy road atlas, discovered that I could put a serious
dent into my quest. I might be able to visit six Presidents, five Vice-Presidents,
five Presidential opponents and seven Vice-Presidential Opponents.
Presidents
Andrew Johnson, Greeneville, TN Visted
Andrew Jackson, Nashville, TN Visted
James K Polk, Nashville, TN Visted
Lyndon Johnson, Stonewall, TX Visted
Dwight Eisenhower, Abilene, KS Visted
Harry S. Truman, Independence, MO Visted
Vice-Presidents
William Rufus Devane King, Selma, AL Visted
John Nance Garner, Uvalde, TX Visted
Charles Curtis, Topeka, KS Visted
Richard Mentor Johnson, Frankfort, KY
John C. Breckinridge, Lexington, KY
Presidential Opponent
Hugh Lawson White, Knoxville, TN
John Bell, Nashville, TN
George Wallace, Montgomery, AL
Alf Landon, Topeka, KS Visted
Henry Clay, Lexington, KY
Vice-Presidential
Opponents
Henry Davis, Elkins, WV
Estes Kefauver, Madisonville, TN
John Sparkman, Huntsville, AL Visted
Fielding Wright, Rolling Fork, MS
Francis Blair, St. Louis, MO
B. Gratz Brown, St. Louis, MO
George Pendleton, Cincinnati, OH
Will I get them all? Probably not, but it's good to have a plan. If you
are a news program or a reality TV show, and you want to sponsor my trip,
feel free to email
me here.
final result: 11 of 23. Not bad.
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