Yorba Linda History


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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

Yorba Linda Signally Honored by Visit of Favorite Son

Yorba Linda Star October 31 1952 page 1   Open this page in a new window

Dick Nixon didn't stay long, but while he was here he seemed to belong here. He seemed to be “this kind of people.”

Unhurried, though his schedule through Orange and San Diego Counties is a killer, the vice presidential candidate greeted the school kids who had been allowed to attend the rally with some stories of his own two little daughters, and reminisced a bit about his own school days in Yorba Linda and his father's lemon of a lemon grove, where the school stands now. He looked tired and his voice sounded as if he'd be gladder than the rest of us when next Wednesday comes but he was still radiating the Nixon personality and forcefulness which first brought him into the public eye.

His visit to his home town didn't call for a political speech in the usual sense, he said, so he just described what kind of a man Dwight Eisenhower really is. “He's a man that belongs to the people,” he said. “Not to the political machines, or to the labor bosses, or to any certain group but to us!”

Eisenhower is not only a great man, Dick said, but he is a good man. If elected he will be a president we'll never be ashamed of; we'll always be proud of. Every phase of his policy, Nixon said, would be based on the one test, “Is it good for America?”

Lucille Rowland, on behalf of the Yorba Linda Republican Women's Club, pinned a beautiful corsage of California poppies on Pat Nixon, and George Kellogg, master of ceremonies, asked Mrs. Nixon to introduce her husband. This was the first time, Dick states, that Pat had ever introduced him.

The candidate appeared in only three other Orange county cities on his buick tour: Brea, Santa Ana and Laguna Beach. He was then to go into San Diego County,

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