Word: yorba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much history, thought Ford as he listened to the eulogies on that clouded and chilly California afternoon last week when Nixon was buried beside his wife Pat at the Nixon library and birthplace in Yorba Linda. Ford was Nixon's closest political colleague. "I treasured his friendship," Ford said later. "When I took the oath of office in the well of the House in 1949, the very first person who came up to shake my hand was Dick Nixon...
...endless work. His father Frank, who had dropped out of school and run away from home after the fourth grade, was a combative and quarrelsome Ohioan. After running through a string of jobs, Frank moved to California in 1907, built a house in the desert-edge town of Yorba Linda and tried to grow lemons. There Frank's pious Quaker wife Hannah gave birth on Jan. 9, 1913, to a second son. She named him Richard, after the English King Richard the Lion-Hearted, plus Milhous, her own family name. The newborn baby, an attendant nurse later recalled...
...tiny group that gathered yesterday just a few hours before Nixon's funeral in Yorba Linda, Calif., provided only a whisper of what it was like during his administration, when hundreds of thousands protested the Vietnam...
...vastly heroic. The man in the white coat is none other than Richard Nixon, memorialized as Vice President in 1956, when he consoled Hungarian refugees in Austria after the Hungarian revolution. The painting, by Hungarian emigre Ferenc Daday, is on display in the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California...
Strange how presidential libraries resemble their Presidents. Nixon's is kind of an upscale suburban building, its arms enfolding his restored but desperately humble birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif. The Carter Center, which embraces several units for scholarship, seems almost reclusive, tucked into a neighborhood not far from Atlanta's downtown. Ford has his library at the University of Michigan, in a building that blends with the functional laboratories and classrooms...