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Unfortunately, the Museum is undergoing major renovations right now so more than two-thirds of it is not viewable until February 2011. They charge full price ($12/person) for 1/3 of a museum. Then they won't let you take your own photos in the doorway of AF1. For $29.99, you can get a CD of your 'official photo' with a slide show of the plane, though. Disappointing. The grounds are gorgeous, however, and the memorial site is worth a stop. Wait until 2011 to visit the museum, though.
[Sara Howe, 07/03/2010]Ronald Reagan Museum and Library:RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
- Address:
- 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, CA
- Directions:
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. Ronald Reagan Fwy exit 22 or 22A. Drive south on Madera Rd for three miles. Turn right onto Presidential Drive; one mile to the museum.
- Hours:
- M-Sa 10 am - 5 pm, Su 12-5 pm. (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 805-522-8444
- Admission:
- Adults $21.
- RA Rates:
- Major Fun
See Nixon's contingency speech in case the astronauts crashed on the moon. Board the helicopter he used to fly away from the presidency in disgrace. Also: the actual house in which he was born, and his grave, along with that of First Lady Pat Nixon.
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Nixon Presidential Library & Museum
- Address:
- 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd, Yorba Linda, CA
- Directions:
- FROM EAST-WEST: Riverside Freeway [Hwy 91] to Imperial Hwy/Hwy 90 exit. North roughly two miles to Yorba Linda Blvd., then west to the Museum. FROM NORTH-SOUTH: Orange Freeway [Hwy 57] to Yorba Linda Blvd. exit. East roughly three miles to the Museum.
- Hours:
- M-Sa 10-5, Su 11-5 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 714-993-9120
- Admission:
- Adults $12.
- RA Rates:
- Major Fun
President Nixon's birthplace home is at his Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, CA. Nixon's father ran a lemon farm here at the time of Richard's birth.
[Tim Bash, 03/28/2014]The Richard Nixon Museum has opened a new half-million-dollar permanent exhibit about Watergate. The National Archives assumed control of the Museum in 2007, and has gradually shifted the Museum's emphasis from Nixon cheerleading and apology to something closer to the truth (The new Watergate exhibit, for example, replaces an old, boring one that insisted that Nixon was "in no way connected" to the break-in).
It's a sad day for fans amused by historical sanitation, but there should still be a few laughs preserved. The Museum continues to display the Nixon Banishment Helicopter and the handgun given to Nixon by Elvis.
[RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 04/02/2011]Suspicious Minds: Elvis And Nixon Meet Again
We've always enjoyed visits to the Richard Nixon Library And Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California. Displays such as a replica of the Alger Hiss pumpkin, and headphones to listen to the "smoking gun" Watergate tape, appeal to Nixon geeks like us. But by far the best part of this place is the "Gifts of the People" room, exhibiting one of Sammy Davis, Jr's. "Love and Peace" medallions -- and the handgun presented to Richard Nixon by Elvis Presley.
The gun display has now been expanded into a full-blown exhibit. "The President and The King," brings visitors back to the magical date of December 21, 1970, when Elvis showed up unannounced at the White House and asked to see Richard Nixon.
Elvis told Nixon that he had come to lend his name and support to Nixon's as-yet-unnamed "War on Drugs," but what The King really wanted was a shield from the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics to add to his collection of law enforcement badges. Elvis got his badge -- and a pair of presidential cuff links -- and gave Nixon the gun in exchange. A photo was taken of the two shaking hands. It is the most popular postcard image at the Nixon Library.
"I don't see anything undignified about it," said Sandy Quinn, assistant director of the Nixon Library. According to Quinn, no one has ever complained about Elvis's presence in Nixon's library. "If they had, we probably wouldn't be doing this."
The exhibit features the famous photo enlarged to life-size, and set in a specially-built room. Next to Nixon and Elvis, under glass, are the actual clothes they wore in the photo: Elvis's black velvet suit and gold, diamond-studded belt (on loan from Graceland) and Nixon's gray suit and tie, described by the Library as "statesmanlike" and "tasteful."
Warner Brothers studio in Hollywood had offered to loan the Library its Oval Office set from the TV series West Wing, which would have made a great photo-op with the life-size photos. Sadly, according to Quinn, it was just too big to get through any available door or window.
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The little wood frame house is nestled in a garden at the other end of the Library's large reflecting pool.