Thanks! I actually enjoy all of these "lesser known" monuments and statues, but I can see where the channel needs some other stuff as well to keep it interesting. Winter is always a tough time to video, but I think we got some different stuff coming up soon.

Thanks

Hey Annie! Good to hear from you. Yes this is a really big park. I think it's on the order of 17 acres! We're doing okay, thanks. Both suffer from some aches and pains occasionally, but that's the reward of living a full life. :-)

This is a reasonable question, and I can only speculate. The money was donated by Buchanan's niece, so the expense is at least explained. The actual debate over the work itself actually went on in Congress for something on the order of 15 years, and when the unveiling ceremony took place, it was not open to the public (weird). After the whole debacle with the Temperance Fountain, DC by this time had a Fine Arts Council, but they approved the work, and I suspect that approval was based more on its artistic aesthetics of the proposed work than on the politics or acts of Buchanan himself, but again that is my personal speculation.

He was still a president

". . . you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”

New York is always fun. Hope you have a great time there! Sorry about the phone cam.

Thanks so much! We are really glad you liked this, and that it gave you some new information too.

Thanks! It seems there is an almost limitless supply to statues in DC. They're all really nice, and I am glad we are getting to visit and see them all, but I think I need a break for a little while. Fortunately we are heading out of town for a couple of days, and maybe we can get something different for the channel.

I noticed this myself, but I have no explanation for it. It's something I am going to have to research or it will drive me crazy. Thanks.

RealUnitedStatesVlog Let me know what you find out!

Glad to.

Matt, turns out the U versus V is a throwback to Latin. "There was the sound for the letter we call U, but it didn’t look like U. It looked like V. The Classical Latin alphabet had only 23 letters, not the 26 that we have today." "First, in the 1500s, Italian printers started distinguishing between the vowel U and the consonant V. However, the V continued to be used for the U sound at the beginning of words. In 1629, the capital U became an accepted letter when Lazare Zetzner, a printer, started using it in his print shop." And, according to another source, ". . . the letter U didn't actually come into wide-spread use in English until the 18th century."