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...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...
While other former Presidents are content to do good works, serve on boards and play golf, Nixon, like the Energizer bunny, just goes on and on and on. At the Nixon library in Yorba Linda, Calif., beside the small, white frame farmhouse where Nixon was born, a movie called Never Give Up: Richard Nixon in the Arena runs continuously in the 293-seat theater. It's a reel he plays over and over in his own mind...