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View the documentRichard Nixon is Winning Orator
Yorba Linda Star March 29 1929 page 1
View the documentCongressman Tells Y. L. Audience How Communist Spy Ring Works
Yorba Linda Star October 8 1948 page 1
View the documentYorba Linda Does Her Little Part in Electing Favorite Son
Yorba Linda Star November 10 1950 page 1
View the documentYorba Linda Signally Honored by Visit of Favorite Son
Yorba Linda Star October 31 1952 page 1
View the documentResponsibility of Government Passes into Republican Hands as Voters Approve Ike and Dick
Yorba Linda Star November 10 1952 page 1
View the documentVice-President's Visit to Yorba Linda Enjoyed by Large Crowd
Yorba Linda Star November 4 1954 page 1
View the documentMany Yorba Lindans, Many Guests Pay Tribute to the Vice President
Yorba Linda Star January 15 1959 page 1
View the documentBig day for Yorba Lindans when the vice-president visits
Yorba Linda Star June 18 1959 page 1
View the documentYorba Linda leads nation with first “Nixon for President” Club
Yorba Linda Star September 3 1959 page 1
View the documentHome town gives Nixon big vote
Yorba Linda Star November 10 1960 page 1
View the documentBrown elected; Rafferty wins
Yorba Linda Star November 14 1962 page 1
View the documentCity Jubilant over Nixon victory
1968 page 1
View the documentForm committee to preserve Nixon birthplace
Yorba Linda Star November 20 1968
View the documentNorth Hollywood man pays $250 for president-elect Nixon's hat
Yorba Linda Star November 20 1968 page 1
View the documentNixon Birthplace Foundation organized here
Yorba Linda Star December 4 1968 page 1
View the documentDedication on President's birthday
Yorba Linda Star January 12 1972 page 1
View the documentNixon wins big in birthplace city
Yorba Linda Star November 15 1972 page 1
View the documentNixon Impeachment Rally Staged At Local Park
by Julia Carey,
Yorba Linda Star November 7 1973 page 1
View the documentResidents saddened by Nixon resignation
by Julia Carey,
Yorba Linda Star August 14 1974 page 1
View the document10-year effort ends with sale of Nixon home
by Margaret Anderson,
Yorba Linda Star July 15 1978 page 1
View the documentArchives Find Yorba Linda Home
by Janette Neumann,
Yorba Linda Star December 10 1987 page 1
View the documentNixon library site deemed historic by commission
Yorba Linda Star June 9 1988 page 3
View the documentLibrary groundbreaking date set
by Janette Neumann,
Yorba Linda Star July 21 1988 page 1
View the documentNixon Library to break ground
by Janette Neumann,
Yorba Linda Star December 1 1988 page 1
View the documentGround broken for Nixon library
by Janette Neumann,
Yorba Linda Star December 8 1988 page 1
View the documentFanfare greets Nixon Library
by Bruce Bailey,
Yorba Linda Star July 26 1990 page 1
View the document5,000 pay their respects to former first lady
Yorba Linda Star July 1 1993
View the documentTime for tears, celebration
by Bruce Bailey,
Yorba Linda Star July 1 1993 page 1
View the documentMan of vision, man of history
by David Montero,
Yorba Linda Star April 28 1994 page 3
View the documentResidents cherish Nixon's ties to city
by Bruce Bailey,
Yorba Linda Star April 28 1994 page 1

Nixon Library to break ground

by Janette Neumann,
Yorba Linda Star December 1 1988 page 1   Open this page in a new window

Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox tomorrow will turn the first shovels of dirt to symbolically launch the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.

Nixon family friends, former cabinet members, and local politicians will attend the Dec. 2 ceremony that heralds the construction of the 45,000-square-foot facility. The project, including preservation work on the former president's birthplace home, will cost the non-profit Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation $25 million.

To assist in parking for the large crowd, Yorba Linda Boulevard will be closed from noon to 5 p.m. at Eureka Avenue to Imperial Highway.

The site, 8.1 acres on the corner of Yorba Linda Boulevard and Eureka Avenue, has long been empty of the lemon trees that the Nixon family cultivated in the 1910s. In preparing for the library, the Richard M. Nixon Elementary School, which was built on the former grove site, was torn down this year after the city bought the site for $1.3 million. The museum and library should open to the public in 1990.

Foundation officials said before the ceremony that the former president would not be attending the event.

“Nixon told me a few years ago that his daughters were very interested in preserving the birthplace, so he let them take center stage,” Mayor Roland Bigonger said. Family illness also was preventing Nixon from leaving his New Jersey home for the event, he said.

The library and museum will include a research center containing the politician's records and memos next to the original birthplace of the 37th president. The Nixon homestead, a small white wood house, has been preserved throughout the years by the local Nixon Birthplace Foundation, headed by Bigonger.

“This is the fruition of dreams of the handful of birthplace foundation members,” he said. A Yorba Linda home for the official library was years in the making, according to Bigonger, who added the library is “the icing on the cake.”

The city always has been very proud of its native son,” said Rolland [sic] of Nixon, who spent only his early childhood here before moving to Whittier.

Included in the project will be a 300-seat theater, a reflecting pool, a formal garden including First Lady Pat Nixon's namesake - a blackish red rose - and a museum that will exhibit national events during Nixon's 1969-1974 presidency.

Museum exhibitions will focus on the Alger Hiss case; the Krushchev [sic] “kitchen debate” in Moscow; the 1960, 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns; and the China breakthrough.

The library will contain none of the material pertaining to his presidency. However, Nixon's vice-presidential papers, his personal records and manuscripts of his six books and White House diaries will be stored there.

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