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...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...
...Yorba Linda, Calif...
What Painters Painting actually shows is mostly painters talking, and talking even less profoundly than might have been expected. De Antonio, who created Milhouse, a pastiche of old newsreels about Yorba Linda's favorite son, seems qualified to make the current film chiefly by his acquaintances with many of the painters featured, who from time to time address him affectionately as "De." Whatever unkind things might have been said in this space about the documentaries of Marcel Ophuls, De Antonio's interviewing technique clearly demonstrates how much Ophuls has in fact achieved. There are long pauses, inane phrases left hanging...
About the only surviving landmark from Nixon's past is the tiny clapboard house where he was born in Yorba Linda, Calif., still the worn residence of a school maintenance man. For now, that house is about as distant as it can be. Watching Nixon with a new four-year charter in his hand and his voice ringing out over the Capitol Plaza, one had to wonder if the President would not always outrace the past...