Richard Nixon ~ January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994

37th President 1969 - 1974

Sites we've visited:

The Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has some Nixon memorabilia, some relating to Watergate and others just miscellany.

Watergate

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 rare 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" from the 1968 Apollo 8 mission

Nixon's old home in San Clemente is under private ownership and not open to the public so it's represented here by some photos & artifacts.

The tragedy that was the Vietnam War.

Other miscellany from the museum:

This is the helicopter that took Nixon from the White House upon his resignation.

It seems everyone gets a piece of the Berlin Wall (seen so far at the museums of Hoover, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan).

The birth home of Richard Nixon, as well as his grave, is also located here.

Gravesite of Richard and Pat.

For those of us who lived through the Nixon era, there isn't a lot of information we don't have about him. But here's one that was new to us: he was the first president to visit all 50 states while in office. And his great-grandfather, George Nixon III died at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The grounds are beautiful and the history is fascinating.

"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."