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close this bookRichard Nixon Collection
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

Man of vision, man of history

by David Montero,
Yorba Linda Star April 28 1994 page 3   Open this page in a new window

The five Yorba Linda City Council members laid a wreath of red roses and white China mums in front of the casket of former President Richard Nixon Tuesday night as they formally paid their last respects.

Mayor Barbara Kiley, dressed in a black overcoat and her hair neatly in a bun, delivered a prepared statement to the audience inside the library's foyer.

Kiley called Nixon “a man of vision and a man of history,” as she stood with councilmen Dan Welch, Mark Schwing, John Gullixson, Henry Wedaa and City Manager Art Simonian.

“We have cherished his birth and now we will tend his memory with warm and loving hands forever,” Kiley said.

Councilman Dan Welch, who said he spoke with Nixon at the funeral of Pat Nixon, said that Nixon was a good man.

“He was a warm human being. I had the opportunity to meet him at Pat Nixon's funeral. He had a real interest in the community as a whole as well as on a national level and I think he expressed that until the day he died. He was a true public servant,” he said.

City council members presented the wreath 90 minutes after Gov. Pete Wilson laid a wreath of yellow roses at the casket.

Aided by an honor guard from the U.S. Coast Guard and surrounded by Navy, Air Force and Marine honor guards, council members also shared a moment of silence with the mourners inside who had come to pay their last respects.

“I think he was a terrific president,” Welch said as his family stood beside him outside of the library, “one who will be remembered mostly for his work in foreign policy.”

Gullixson, wearing a dark suit, said little as he emerged from the wreath ceremony, only expressing surprise and awe at the large crowd that had gathered to visit Nixon.

“This line is incredible,” he said.

Welch praised the library and its staff for allowing the public to view the casket.

“I think it is very generous of them to open the library so that the public can come and pay last respects to President Nixon,” he said.

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