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"We'd like to thank you, Herbert Hoover!" the song goes, the result of a rough Presidency followed by a stellar post-Presidency. Learn about the end of our 31st President's administration, his long retirement, his decline and death, and burial, along with his legacy!  Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2026/02/03/season-3-episode-31-herbert-hoovers-tomb/ Season 1's Herbert Hoover Episode: "Herbert Hoover and West Branch" on his birthplace! Season 2's Herbert Hoover Episode: "Herbert Hoover and Palo Alto" on his homes! Support the show Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

Keep cool with Coolidge...but not too cool! A President renowned for his brevity, Calvin Coolidge, 30th President, masked great pain and real ambivalence about his office. Learn about the end of his administration, his brief retirement, his decline and death, and burial, along with his legacy!  Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2026/01/20/season-3-episode-30-calvin-coolidges-tomb/ Season 1's Calvin Coolidge Episode: "Calvin Coolidge and Plymouth Notch" on his birthplace! Season 2's Calvin Coolidge Episode: "Calvin Coolidge and Northampton" on his homes! Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

"That's good. Go on; Read some more," the last words of Warren Harding, 29th President of the United States, and our sixth to die in office. Learn about Harding's scandal-plagued Presidency, his health concerns, sudden death, burial, and legacy! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/12/09/season-3-episode-29-warren-hardings-tomb/ Season 1's Warren Harding Episode: "Warren Harding and Blooming Grove" on his birthplace! Season 2's Warren Harding Episode: "Warren Harding and Marion" on his home! Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

"When the machinery is broken...I am ready," the last words of Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States. Learn about his difficult final years as President, including his fateful incapacity, his brief post-Presidency, death, burial, and commemorations!  Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/11/25/season-3-episode-28-woodrow-wilsons-tomb/ Season 1's Woodrow Wilson Episode: "Woodrow Wilson and Staunton" on his birthplace! Season 2's Woodrow Wilson Episode: "Woodrow Wilson and Washington, DC" on his homes! Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break. My trip to New York, Boston, Georgia, and Texas, with side jaunts to Oregon and Ohio!  Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned: Birthplaces "John Adams and Braintree" "John Quincy Adams and Quincy" "Theodore Roosevelt and Manhattan" "Calvin Coolidge and Plymouth Notch" "Herbert Hoover and West Branch" "Franklin Roosevelt and Hyde Park" "John F Kennedy and Brookline" "Jimmy Carter and Plains"  "George W Bush and New Haven" "Barack Obama and Honolulu"  Homes "John Adams and Peacefield"  "Franklin Pierce and Concord" "Rutherford Hayes and Spiegel Grove" "Warren Harding and Marion" "John F Kennedy and Hyannis Port" "Jimmy Carter and the Carter Home" "Barack Obama and Oahu"  Gravesites "John Adams' Tomb" "John Quincy Adams' Tomb"  "Franklin Pierce's Tomb"  "Ulysses Grant's Tomb" "Rutherford Hayes' Tomb"  Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

The second (and final) diversion from the Presidents content: BONUS episode featuring my trip to Rome, seeing the sites and enjoying the Eternal City, a dream trip for me! Hear about how I planned and executed a trip abroad!  Back to Presidential content in a few weeks!  Part 1: How I Spent My Summer of International Travels, 2025! PARIS!  Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

A brief diversion from the Presidents content, though I do Visit some Presidents in the City of Lights! BONUS episode featuring my trip to Paris, where I fit statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and a bust of Abraham Lincoln between museums and cathedrals and a lot of walking! Hear about how I planned and executed a trip abroad!  Back to Presidential content in a few weeks!  Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

"I don't remember that I was ever President," William Howard Taft once said, a decade removed from his tumultuous tenure as 27th President. Learn about his post-Presidency; the real joy of his life, his tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; his death, burial, and commemorations!  Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/09/23/season-3-episode-27-william-howard-tafts-tomb/ Season 1's William Howard Taft Episode: "William Howard Taft and Cincinnati" on his birthplace! Season 2's William Howard Taft Episode: "William Howard Taft and Washington, DC" on his homes! Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

"Please put out the light, James." The last words of a larger-than-life leader, Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President, whose time after the White House was also full of adventure and excitement. Learn about his action-filled post-Presidency, his illnesses, death, and burial, as well as his gravesite! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/09/09/season-3-episode-26-theodore-roosevelts-tomb/ Season 1's Theodore Roosevelt Episode: "Theodore Roosevelt and Manhattan" on his birthplace! Season 2's Theodore Roosevelt Episode: "Theodore Roosevelt and Sagamore Hill" on his home! Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

"It is God's will, not ours." William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, died after a week of suffering from an assassin's bullet, our third President killed in office. Learn about his brief second term, his shooting and death, funeral, and tomb in Canton!  Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/08/26/season-3-episode-25-william-mckinleys-tomb/ Season 1's William McKinley Episode: "William McKinley and Niles" on his birthplace! Season 2's William McKinley Episode: "William McKinley and Canton" on his homes! Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

We are back for more! More questions and more answers about Presidents, their sites, and all of the fun along the way! Be sure to check out Part I, but here we will answer:  What crimes have occurred at Presidential sites? Which President had the worst hygiene? Which President threw the best parties? Which President needs MORE statues? What Presidential legacies have improved over time, and why? What sites would get donations from me if I struck it rich? What is my "white whale" for Presidential sites? And more! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/06/03/season-3-episode-24-not-grover-clevelands-second-term-question-and-answer-episode/ Part 1: https://visitingthepresidents.buzzsprout.com/1617841/episodes/17275847-s3-e24-not-grover-cleveland-s-second-term-question-and-answer-episode Season 1's "NOT Grover Cleveland's Second Term Question and Answer Episode"! Season 2's "NOT Grover Cleveland's Second Term Question and Answer Episode"!   Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

Who says you can't have a second chance? Grover Cleveland did, since joined by Donald Trump, as our only Presidents to serve non-consecutive terms! We won’t do his gravesite in Princeton Cemetery over…Check out Episode 22, "Grover Cleveland's Tomb" for that info!  Instead, Episode 24 is a Question and Answer with questions submitted by listeners of the “Visiting the Presidents” podcast! Among the Questions Answered:  Should we re-Visit the no-third term rule?  How do Presidents unwind after serving as President? Are Presidents through with cemeteries? Is talking about Presidential deaths a downer?  Does our current sensitivity to mental health alter how we view Presidents who struggled? Which President would I borrow from in choosing a gravesite? Whose gravesite is the most extravagant? The most "meh"?  Which Presidential tomb would I re-do? And more!  Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/06/03/season-3-episode-24-not-grover-clevelands-second-term-question-and-answer-episode/ Part 2: https://visitingthepresidents.buzzsprout.com/1617841/episodes/17549254-s2-e24a-not-grover-cleveland-s-second-term-question-and-answer-part-2 Season 1's "NOT Grover Cleveland's Second Term Question and Answer Episode"! Season 2's "NOT Grover Cleveland's Second Term Question and Answer Episode"!   Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

"Are the doctors here?" With those words, the second President Harrison died.  Learn about the difficult end of Benjamin Harrison's Presidency, his second marriage, his failing health, death, and burial, as well as his gravesite in Indianapolis!  Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/05/20/season-3-episode-23-benjamin-harrisons-tomb/ Season 1's Benjamin Harrison Episode: "Benjamin Harrison and North Bend" on his birthplace! Season 2's Benjamin Harrison Episode: "Benjamin Harrison and Indianapolis" on his homes! Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

"I have tried so hard to do right." Thus ended the extraordinary rise and unprecedented life of Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Nobody had ever served in two non-consecutive terms before, and Cleveland experienced the hard way how harsh things could be during a financial collapse. Learn about the difficult end of his second term, his more joyful post-Presidency, his failing health, death, and burial, as well as his gravesite in Princeton Cemetery!  Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/04/22/season-3-episode-22-grover-clevelands-tomb/ Season 1's Grover Cleveland Episode: "Grover Cleveland and Caldwell" on his birthplace! Season 2's Grover Cleveland Episode: "Grover Cleveland and Princeton" on his homes! Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

Few Presidents had as breezy a time getting to the Executive Mansion, and as horrible a time once he arrived than Chester Alan Arthur, 21st President of the United States. Learn about his difficult Presidency, his failing health, brief post-Presidency, death, and burial, as well as his gravesite in Albany Rural Cemetery!  Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/04/08/season-3-episode-21-chester-arthurs-tomb/ Season 1's Chester Arthur Episode: "Chester Arthur and Fairfield" on his birthplace! Season 2's Chester Arthur Episode: "Chester Arthur and Manhattan" on his homes! Support the show Also, check out “Visiting the Presidents” on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!