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The Nixon Presidential Library Adventure (Page Two)
We headed outside and the temperature was 82 degrees on January 12th 2009
Pat And Dick Are Buried On The Property Next To His Childhood Home
His Childhood Home Was Only A Few Feet Away
We Went Inside On A Short Tour
Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 to Francis A. Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon in a house his father had built in Yorba Linda, California. His mother was a Quaker, and his upbringing is said to have been marked by conservative Quaker observances of the time, such as refraining from drinking, dancing, and swearing. His father converted from Methodist to Quakerism after his marriage. Nixon had four brothers: Harold (1909–1933), Donald (1914–1987), Arthur (1918–1925), and Ed (born 1930).
The home was a "kit house" from a catalog!
Sue enjoyed the visit
We all had a great time
Nixon could play piano, violin, trumpet, clarinet and the accordion
He was born on this bed
The furniture was 90% original!
The five Nixon brothers
They Cooked For Seven In This Tiny Kitchen
Cool air from underneath the house went up into the closet to keep
vegetables and fruits fresh!
The East Room Recreated
The East Room is the largest room in the White House, the home of the President of the United States. It is used for entertaining, press conferences, ceremonies, and occasionally for a large dinner. The White House's oldest possession, the 1797 Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, rescued from the 1814 fire, hangs in the East Room with a companion portrait of Martha Washington painted by Eliphalet F. Andrews in 1878.
It looks identical to the real one at the White House
Time for a nice waltz
Magical Mirrors
The Hall Of Flags
This is the dish room!!!!
A Truly Great President
We had a super visit to the library and would certainly do it again!
Approximately 46 million pages of official White House records from the Nixon
Administration are stored at NARA's Archives II facility in College Park,
Maryland in accordance with the Presidential Recordings and Materials
Preservation Act of 1974 (PRMPA), and will be transferred to the newly-federal
Yorba Linda facility from 2007-2009. The Nixon Presidential Materials Staff
(nicknamed the "Nixon Project") had no previous affiliation with the Nixon
Library, but lent materials to the Library & Birthplace in the past (see record
controversies). Upon completion of the transfer of Nixon papers, gifts of state
and memorabilia, the Nixon Materials Project will be discontinued.
In January 2004, the United States Congress passed legislation that provided for
the establishment of a federally operated Nixon Presidential Library.
Specifically, the legislation amended the Presidential Recordings and Materials
Preservation Act of 1974, which mandated that Nixon's Presidential Materials
were to remain in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Under this new
legislation, the materials will be moved to a federally operated facility
outside of the Washington, D.C., area.
In March 2005, the Archivist of the United States, Allen Weinstein, and the
Reverend John H. Taylor, Executive Director of the privately run Richard Nixon
Library and Birthplace Foundation, exchanged letters on the requirements that
allowed the Nixon Library and Birthplace to become the twelfth federally funded
Presidential Library, operated and staffed by NARA. On October 16, 2006, Dr.
Timothy Naftali began his tenure as director of the Materials Project; he
assumed the directorship of the newly renamed Richard Nixon Presidential Library
& Museum on July 11, 2007 when the institution was officially welcomed into the
federal presidential library system. In the winter of 2006/2007 NARA began
transferring the 30,000 Presidential gifts from the Nixon Presidential Materials
Staff in College Park, Maryland to Yorba Linda. Later that year, the Nixon
Library and Birthplace began preparing for its transition from a private library
to a federal Presidential Library, including retrofits to the facility to house
Nixon's Presidential and pre-Presidential Materials according to NARA standards.
NARA assisted the Library & Birthplace staff and the Nixon Foundation in
planning for appropriate space to house these materials.
Nixon suffered a severe stroke at 5:45 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 18, 1994, while preparing to eat dinner in his Park Ridge, New Jersey home.