They key here is to figure out who all the Haiku refer to and then to put them into their logical order. Each Haiku refers to a president, so the logical order is the the order of their presidencies. Next, teams need to notice there are exactly seventeen Haiku, the number of syllables in a Haiku. They therefore should somehow take one syllable from each Haiku to make a new Haiku. There are a few logical ways to do this, but the one that works takes the first syllable from the first Haiku, the second from the second, up to the seventeenth from the seventeenth. That yields:
Washington:
The farewell address
Set foreign policy for
A generation
Adams:
The next with his name
Was his son whose second name
Began with a Q
Jefferson:
A fellow famous
For writing words that began
“When in the course of…”
Jackson:
A battle Cajun
Put this early democrat
On the twenty bill
Harrison:
His first oration
Led to his untimely death
Of a horrid cold
Lincoln:
They say Illinois
Is the land of him, but he
Came from Kentucky
Grant:
A great general
Is the man who bested Lee
At Appomattox.
Wilson:
He was racist but
I say oy vey his fourteen points
Could have been useful.
Hoover:
His Stanford degree
Made no more sturdy his reign
Over depression.
Roosevelt:
He brought a new deal
And tried to appoint judges,
Six extra in all.
Truman:
When he used the bomb
Deadly, nuclear wind saw
An end to the war
Eisenhower:
Against the Nazis
On and on he would still harp;
Buttons say “I like…”
Kennedy:
As a good catholic,
He just wanted to help the
South Vietnamese
Nixon:
Watergate ruined
A legacy in China
So sanguinary
Reagan:
Famous actor left
Democrats with a feeling of
Disenfranchisement
Clinton:
The Arkansas lad
Gave long speeches and was not
Known for concision
Bush:
A close election
Ended with help from Karl Rove,
A politico
Which finally gives the message:
The next location
Is the Oyster Point Wind Harp
South San Francisco
