Richard Nixon ~ January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994
37th President 1969 - 1974 Richard Nixon sites visited: The Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has some Nixon memorabilia, some relating to Watergate and others just miscellany. Watergate Rapid City, South Dakota, City of Presidents statue: We stopped in Nixon's museum in Yorba Linda, California, on April 14, 2019, which coincidentally was the date of a memorial service for Richard Nixon's brother, Edward (Edward died on 2/28/19). By the time we were finished in the museum, the service was over. Here was a chance to actually sit in an Oval Office so kudos to the museum for that! Watergate and the tapes were fully represented, which was another happy surprise. You can listen to the "gap." Considering how Nixon helped killed the Apollo program, it's a bit misleading to have these artifacts here but he was president for the historic Apollo 11 mission and he watched Apollo 12 takeoff (the first sitting president to view a NASA launch). "Earth Rise...