kensmind Warren Harding was the first sitting President to visit Canada. He did it in 1923 on what would become the last journey of his life. He died on August 2, 1923 while on a tour of the west coast that included several destinations in Alaska, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, where Harding died at the Palace Hotel. In the days before commercial air travel, Harding had to traverse through British cheap motels in las vegas Columbia by train to get from Alaska to Washington state. He visited the city of Vancouver on July 26, 1923, the first sitting U.S. president to visit Canada. According to news reports from back then, Harding wowed the locals. BC premier John Oliver and Vancouver's mayor Charles Tisdall hosted a lunch in his honor at the Hotel Vancouver. An estimated 50,000 Vancouverites crowded into Stanley Park (Vancouver's version of Central Park, only bigger) to Harding speak. It was, as a sanitized Joe Biden might say, a big fricken' deal. Harding played some golf while he was in Vancouver, at the Shaughnessey Golf Club (where today the rich and famous in Vancouver society continue to play). Harding had been unwell on the trip and after playing six holes of golf, he became so tired that, to quell any suspicions, he moved to the 17th hole, then finished the 18th. The photo below shows the Harding foursome: from left to right F.W. Peters, General Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific cheap motels in las vegas Railroad, Chief Justice D.A. McDonald of the BC Court of Appeal, Harding and a fourth person identified cheap motels in las vegas as the Hon. Dr. King. After the game Harding called for White House homeopath Sawyer, complaining of nausea and pain in the upper abdomen. Sawyer found the President had a pulse of 120 beats per minute and was breathing 40 times per minute. (Both of these readings are abnormally high.) Intensive cardiac therapy including digitalis was started. A week later Harding and his entourage were in San Francisco, cheap motels in las vegas and he died there, exactly one week after visiting Vancouver. The city of Vancouver was saddened by Harding's death. Harding had belonged to the Kiwanis Club, and the Kiwanis Club of Vancouver initiated a drive for a grand memorial to him in Stanley Park, at the site where he spoke. The monument was designed by Vancouver sculptor Charles Marega, also a Kiwanian, and unveiled in 1925. I was in Vancouver on Friday and decided that as the geekiest of the potus_geeks cheap motels in las vegas , it was my solemn duty to visit the Harding Monument. I am very familiar with Stanley Park. I used to run through the trails and on the seawall there a lot when I used to train for marathons, but finding this monument was no small feat. I located cheap motels in las vegas it on a map of the park and walked around looking for it, but couldn't seem to find it. By fluke, I found the back of the monument, but when I tried to walk around to the front, I was thwarted by a high fence. It turned cheap motels in las vegas out that the monument was inside the Malkin Bowl (an outdoor theatre enclosed in a fence.) I was able to find a break in the fence and probably trespassed, but I was able to get in and snap a picture of the monument. (If anyone caught me, I was going to claim that I was a tourist from Ohio and that I was outraged that the monument cheap motels in las vegas wasn't accessible to the public, and that "the embassy will be hearing about this!") Nobody caught me, so I snapped my picture and left the same way I came in. That's my daily story of breaking and entering. More pictures cheap motels in las vegas of the monument appear behind the cut. 1. Another picture of the monument. 2-3. The inscription on the sides of the monument, which quotes from Harding's cheap motels in las vegas remarks in Vancouver, reads: "What an object lesson of peace is shown today by our two countries to all the world. No grim-faced fortifications mark our frontiers. No huge battleships patrol our dividing waters. cheap motels in las vegas No stealthy spies lurk in our tranquil border hamlets. Only a scrap of paper recording hardly more than a simple understanding safeguards lives and properties on the great lakes, and only humble mile posts the inviolable boundary line for thousands cheap motels in las vegas of miles through farm and forests. Our protection is our fraternity. Our armour is ever increasing acquaintance and comradeship through interchange of citizens; and the compact is not of perishable parchment, but of fair and honourable dealing, which, God grant, shall continue for all time." "Erected by Kiwanis International in memory of a great occasion in the life of two sister nations here on July 26, 1923. Warren Gamaliel Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States of America, and first President to visit Canada, Charter Member of the Kiwanis Club of Marion, cheap motels in las vegas Ohio, spoke words that are worthy of record in lasting granite." 4. This lion head appears at the back of the monument. For some reason, this gave me the clue that I had found the monument.
kensmind wrote: Aug. 26th, 2012 04:16 pm (UTC) That was the first thing I noticed in that picture. Those socks are quite hoity-toity! I also wondered why the flag on the pin wasn't cheap motels in las vegas windblown, but Harding's tie was.
kensmind wrote: Aug. 26th, 2012 04:12 pm (UTC) I'm sorry if my poor attempt at humour served to perpetuate an unfair stereotype. I've travelled cheap motels in las vegas extensively throughout the USA and have always found the people to be very friendly. I haven't encountered the sense of entitlement that you speak of.
direcorrector wrote: Aug. 26th, 2012 09:37 pm (UTC) Good to hear, as my countrymen CAN get awfully cheap motels in las vegas ethnocentric. I was in a tour group last year that had 3 Americans and 1 Australian. We asked the Australian woman which country had the most obnoxious tourists. Being good Americans we expect to be first in everything. ;) And then we were surprised when she said we weren't cheap motels in las vegas worst.
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