Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Presidential museum and library in Yorba Linda, United States.
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is a library and museum in Yorba Linda, United States, documenting the life and administration of the 37th President. The complex includes exhibition spaces, research areas, and the preserved birthplace house on parklike grounds.
The library was first planned for the edge of Duke University, Nixon's alma mater, but protests by Duke professors ended that plan. Ground was broken in December 1988 by Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and the complex was dedicated on July 19, 1990, before a crowd of 50,000, with Nixon, Pat Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan present. Because the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act of 1974 gave NARA ownership of Nixon's White House papers and tapes, the private Richard Nixon Foundation ran the site until July 11, 2007, when NARA took over joint operation.
The library stands on land the Nixon family once owned, and the Richard Nixon Birthplace on the grounds is a National Historic Landmark where Nixon was born in 1913 and spent his childhood. The house was built by his father from a home building kit and is restored to its 1910s appearance. Nixon and Pat Nixon are buried a few feet from it.
The campus covers 9 acres at 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard, with the museum in front and the birthplace and graves a few steps behind it. The East Room replica in the 2004 Annenberg Court wing is leased for weddings and meetings, so it may be closed to visitors during private events. Nixon's VH-3A Sea King helicopter stands outdoors on the grounds.
A helicopter used for state travel during the administration stands on the grounds as a walk-through exhibit. Visitors can step inside the cabin and view the interior layout that served the president.
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