Word: nixon
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...ceremony to dedicate the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace was a strange conjuration of the past, subdued and defiant at the same time, like the man himself: an assertion of greatness, a denial of disgrace. Watergate sat inconspicuously in the audience (H.R. Haldeman, Ron Ziegler, Rose Mary Woods, among others from the memorable cast), but only George Bush mentioned the subject in passing. A flock of white doves went blurring over the University of Southern California Trojan marching band. The other Presidents praised Nixon as statesman and peacemaker. What seemed like several billion red, white and blue balloons were...
...Richard Nixon's day of vindication, his ultimate emergence from the "wilderness" that followed Watergate. It has been 16 years since he flew west to San Clemente in disgrace. He worked long, stubbornly and bravely, to rehabilitate his reputation. He wrote seven books, traveled the world, kept himself on a relentless forward trajectory. He was performing yet again his old miracle of self-resurrection...
...ceremony at the library, however, felt like a culmination. The compound at Yorba Linda is a single-story, pink sandstone museum and library that cost $21 million and looks like a suburban mini-mall. It stands beside the small, white frame farmhouse where Nixon was born in 1913. Having consecrated the place -- his life from birth through presidency all handsomely compacted there -- Nixon completed a circle. As he spoke last week, he seemed a little tired and rambling. It had after all been an exhausting 77-year circuit from the room where he was born to this ritual of fulfillment...
...Nixon's has been an astonishing story of ambition and endurance. His fascination derives from some primal quality in him to which Americans have always responded, sometimes with a hatred so fierce as to be nearly inexplicable on rational grounds. The Nixon on view in Yorba Linda is a version carefully controlled by Nixon himself. His is the only President's library built and operated entirely with private funds, except for the Rutherford B. Hayes library in Fremont, Ohio. The library is Nixon's show. It will contain only a very careful selection of the presidential papers. The original papers...
...Nixon compound is thus more a museum than a serious scholar's archives. The 293-seat theater continuously runs a movie called Never Give Up: Richard Nixon in the Arena. A hallway gallery displays 30 of the 56 TIME covers on which Nixon appeared. Exhibits lead visitors through the whole saga with photographs and artifacts, including a hollowed-out pumpkin, microfilm and a Woodstock typewriter (the famous items of evidence that nailed down the case against Alger Hiss), and an old woody station wagon like the one Nixon used for his 1950 race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas...