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DEDICATION CEREMONY OF
THE RICHARD M. NIXON LIBRARY AND BIRTHPLACE
DATE:
Thursday, July 19, 1990
TIME:
9:25 AM
LOCATION:
Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace,
Yorba Linda, California
FROM:
DAVID DEMAREST
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR COMMUNICATIONS
CHRISS WINSTON
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND
DIRECTOR OF SPEECHWRITING
I.
PURPOSE
To officially dedicate the Richard Nixon Library and
Birthplace.
II. BACKGROUND
The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace joins the
Rutherford B. Hayes Library in Ohio as one of the
nation's two independently funded presidential
libraries. There are currently eight additional
presidential libraries operated by the National
Archives and Records Administration.
The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace is located in
Yorba Linda, California, forty miles north-east of Los-
Angeles. The small house in which President Nixon was
raised is located on the grounds of the Library. The
Library will open to the public on Friday, July 20,
1990, at 8:30 AM.
Your remarks (14 minutes, teleprompter) will be
delivered to 1,500 seated guests, and an estimated
25,000 standing visitors.
III. PARTICIPANTS
The President
Mrs. Bush
President and Mrs. Nixon
President and Mrs. Reagan
President and Mrs. Ford
Secretary Mosbacher
Governor Deukmejian
Former Secretary Shultz
Billy Graham
Norman Vincent Peale
Hugh Hewitt, director of the Library
William Simon, MC
Vicky Carr, vocalist
Winton Blount
Frederick Dent
Robert Finch
Clifford Hardin
Alexander Haig
Walter Hickel
Henry Kissinger
William Middendorf
William Rogers
George Romney
Donald Rumsfeld
Maurice Stans
Herbert Stein
Ambassador Richard Moore
Walter Annenberg
Ambassador Zhu-Qizhen (JEW KEY-jen),
People's Republic of China
IV. PRESS PLAN
Open Press: there will be photo opportunities before
and after your remarks. There will be closed press for
your lunch with President Nixon (11:20 AM). Please see
Advance Office scenario for further details.
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
9:25:
ARRIVAL
9:30:
MIX AND MINGLE WITH FORMER PRESIDENTS
9:40:
BRIEF TOUR OF LIBRARY (Photo Opportunity)
10:00:
NIXON LIBRARY DEDICATION
11:05:
WALKING TOUR OF NIXON BIRTHPLACE (Photo
Opportunity)
11:20:
LUNCH WITH PRESIDENT NIXON
Please see Advance Office scenario for further details.
Remarks provided by Speechwriting.
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1990
A.M.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NIXON LIBRARY
YORBA LINDA, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1990
10:30 A.M.
President and Mrs. Nixon. How pleased I am to see you.
President and Mrs. Reagan, President and Mrs. Ford. Secretary
Mosbacher. Reverend Graham, Senior Members of the Nixon
Administration, Governor Deukmejian, Senator Wilson, Chief
Justice Burger, Vicky Carr. Those great American heroes -- our
Viet Nam Prisoners of War. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Mr.
President, for that introduction. And to all of you, for the
privilege of helping to dedicate this beautiful Library of the
37th President of the United States.
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To Lincoln, the Presidency helped play -- as he put it --
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America's "mystic chords of memory." To TR, it meant the "bully
pulpit," reflecting America at her most vital. And it was Dwight
Eisenhower -- beloved Ike -- who described its power "to proclaim
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To occupy this office is to feel a kinship with these and
other Presidents. Each of whom, in his own way, sought to do
right -- and thus achieve good. // Each felt a sacred obligation
to serve the idea we call America. And each wondered, I suspect,
how they could be worthy of God, and man. //
This year, an estimated 1.5 million people will visit
National Anchines
Presidential museums and libraries. Exploring the lives of these 501-5700
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Presidents passed -- like oral history -- from one generation to
another. // They will see how each President is like a finely-
cut prism with many facets. Their achievements, and their
philosophy. Their family, and their humanity. //
In Santa Barbara, for instance, visitors will soon see the
library of my distinguished predecessor, the 40th President of
the United States, and Mrs. Reagan. To Ronald Reagan, I say:
"We will not soon forget how you truly blessed America. " //
Look, next, to Michigan -- where a museum and library honors
the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, and Mrs.
Ford. An entire Nation is grateful for your leadership and love
of country. //
Tomorrow morning, the first visitors will enter our newest
Presidential Library. They will note that only FDR ran as many
times as Richard Nixon -- five -- for national office: Each
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winning four elections. And that more people voted for Richard
Nixon as President than any man in history. // They will hear of
Horatio Alger and Alger Hiss. Of the book, Six Crises, and the
seventh crisis, Watergate. // They will think of Checkers --
Millie's role model. // And, yes, Mr. President, your answer to
my "Vision thing" -- "Let me make this perfectly clear. " //
Many of these visitors will know of your times as President:
Perhaps as tumultuous as any since Lincoln's. And of your goal
as President: A world where peace would link the community of
nations. Yet other young visitors will not remember the years
1969-74. They had not even been born when Richard Nixon became
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President. So to help them understand our 37th President, here
is what I would tell those who journey to Yorba Linda. //
Memens
I would say, first: Look at perhaps the truest index of
any man -- his family. Think of his mother -- a gentle Quaker -
- and his father, who built their small frame house less than 100
yards from here. And his daughters, Tricia and Julie. Any
parent would be proud of children with the loyalty and love of
these two women. // Think, finally, of a gracious First Lady who
ranks among the most admired women of post-World War II America.
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The woman we know, and love, as Pat. //
As First Lady, Pat Nixon championed the Right to Read
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program, and brought the "Parks to People" program to the
disabled and disadvantaged. She refurbished the White House and
opened it to more Americans than ever before. She was our most
widely traveled First Lady -- visiting five continents and 22
Nations. Overcoming the poverty and tragedy of her childhood to
become a mirror of America's heart, and love. // When, in 1958,
foreign mobs stoned the Nixons' car, she was, a reporter said,
"stronger than any man." Yet it was also Pat who moved pianist
Duke Ellington, at a White House dinner, to improvise a melody.
"I shall pick a name, " he said, "gentle, graceful -- like
Patricia. = // Mrs. Nixon, the Secret Service called you
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"Starlight." Your husband has said it best: You "fit that name
to a T. " //
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Next, I would say to visitors here: Look at Richard Nixon
the man. // He had an intellectual's complexity. He was an
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author / eight books // each composed on his famous yellow legal
pads // who, like his favorite author, Tolstoy, admired the
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dignity of manual labor. He worked in the most pragmatic of
arenas -- yet insisted that "politics is poetry, not prose. " //
He believed in love of country, and God -- in loyalty to friends,
and protecting loved ones. He was also a soft touch when it came
to kids. // Believe me, I can empathize. //
( (Let me repeat a story which President Nixon himself
enjoys. // One day, greeting an airport crowd, he heard a young
girl shouting, "How is Smokey the Bear?" // at that time, living
in the Washington Zoo. The girl kept repeating the question.
Not understanding her words, the President turned to an aide for
translation. // "Smokey the Bear," the aide mumbled, pointing to
the girl. "Washington National Zoo." // Triumphant, President
stave Bull.
Nixon walked over, extended his hand, and said: "How do you do /
Miss Bear?") ) ///
Now, I'm not one to criticize verbal confusion. After all,
some say English is my only foreign language. // President Nixon
was merely being kind. Just as he mailed hand-written letters to
memors
defeated rivals like his dear friend Hubert Humphrey. Or saw
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that when the POWS returned home in early '73 to a White House
R.T.
Dinner, each wife received a corsage. // Just as Richard Nixon
was extraordinarily controversial, he could also be uncommonly
sensitive to the feelings of other people. //
This brings me to what I would next tell those who travel to
Yorba Linda. What President Nixon said of Dwight Eisenhower in a
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1969 eulogy was true, also, of himself: He "came from the heart
of America. " Not geographically, perhaps, but culturally. //
Richard Nixon was the quintessence of Middle America, and
touched deep chords of response in millions of her citizens. As
President, upholding what he termed the "Silent Majority" from
Dallas to Davenport, Syracuse to Siler City. // He loved
America's good, quiet, decent people; he spoke for them; he
felt, deeply, on their behalf. // Theodore White would say:
"Middle America had been without a great leader for generations,
and in Richard Nixon it
elevated a man of talent and
ability. " // For millions of Americans, this President became
something they had rarely known: A voice -- speaking loudly, and
eloquently, for their values and their dreams. //
Finally, and most importantly, I would say to visitors:
Richard Nixon helped change the course not only of America but of
the entire world. He believed in returning power to the people.
So he created revenue sharing. // And that young people should
JRT.
be free to choose their futures. So Richard Nixon ended the
draft. // He helped the United States reach new horizons in
space and technology. Began a pioneering cancer initiative that
gave hope and life to millions. // He knew that the great
outdoors is precious, but fragile. So he created the
Environmental Protection Agency -- an historic step to help
preserve, and wisely use, our natural resources. //
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All of this Richard Nixon did. Yet future generations will
remember him most for dedicating his life to the greatest cause
offered any President -- the cause of peace among Nations. //
Richard Nixon believed that true peace means the triumph of
freedom -- not merely the absence of war. So he endured much in
his quest for "Peace With Honor" in Viet Nam. // Yet he also
understood America's special mission to end the brutality of war.
So he engaged in diplomatic summitry -- and helped change the
post-war bi-polar globe. //
Who can forget how in Moscow, President Nixon signed the
first agreement of the nuclear age to protect our environment and
limit strategic nuclear arms? // Or how he planted the first
fragile seeds of peace in the Middle East: Golda Meir credited
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him with saving Israel during the Yom Kippur War. // Even now,
memories resound of President Nixon's trip to China -- the week
that
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"Being President," he often said, "is nothing compared with what
you can do as President." Mr. President, you worked with every
fiber of your being to help achieve "A Generation of Peace. " //
Today, as the movement toward democracy sweeps our globe, you can
take great pride that history will say of you: "Here was a true
architect of peace."
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There have been, literally, millions of words written about
Richard Nixon. But let me close with a passage from the
President himself. It comes from his first Inaugural Address --
January 20, 1969 -- where the new President spoke of how "the
P.D.
greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. "//
He began by noting that within the lifetime of most present,
mankind would celebrate a new year which occurs only once in a
thousand years -- the start of a new millennium. And that
America had the chance to "lead the world onto that high ground
of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization." "
Finally, Richard Nixon concluded: "If we succeeed,
generations to come will say of us that we helped make the world
safe for mankind. I believe the American people are ready to
answer this call.' " //
Mr. President, you helped America answer its "summons to
greatness. " Thank you for serving the cause of peace. God bless
you and your family. And now, it is my distinct pleasure and
honor to introduce the 37th President of the United States.
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right -- and thus achieve good. // Each felt a sacred obligation
to serve this dream we call America. And often wondered, I
suspect, how they could be worthy of God, and man. //
We have with us today heroes who met that test. Three
former Presidents -- and three First Ladies -- who enriched the
United States -- and helped America enrich the world. //
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simple reason. Maybe we can compare notes. See, I still haven't
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the United States, Gerald Ford, and Mrs. Ford. // On behalf of
each American, an entire Nation is grateful for the example of
your lives. //
Here, too, are Mrs. Reagan and my distinguished predecessor,
the 40th President of the United States. // To Ronald Reagan, I
say: "Thank you for helping us to believe in ourselves again.
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wonder: "What was Richard Nixon, and his Presidency, about?"
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Writing of Richard Nixon, historians will observe many
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for the Nation that you loved. // Defeated, you came back --
again / and again / and again. Disparaged, you prevailed. You
showed how life can be a metaphor for courage. Believing in --
and making real -- a touch of the American Dream. //
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NIXON LIBRARY
YORBA LINDA, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1990
10:30 A.M.
President and Mrs. Nixon -- and how pleased I am to see you.
President and Mrs. Ford, President and Mrs. Reagan. Reverend
Graham, Secretary Simon, Governor Duekmejian, Senator Wilson,
Chief Justice Burger, Vicky Carr. Those great American heroes -
- our Viet Nam Prisoners of War. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank
you for the privilege of saluting an office to which my
predecessors devoted the full measure of their lives: The
Presidency of the United States. //
To Lincoln, the Presidency played America's "mystic chords
of memory." To TR, it meant the "bully pulpit," reflecting
American values and ideals. And it was Dwight Eisenhower --
beloved Ike -- who described its power "to proclaim anew our
faith," and summon "lightness against the dark."
To occupy this office is to feel a kinship with these and
other Presidents. Each of whom, in his own way, sought to do
right -- and thus achieve good. // Each felt a sacred obligation
to serve this dream we call America. And often wondered, I
suspect, how they could be worthy of God, and man. //
We have with us today men and women who faced that test.
Three former Presidents -- and three First Ladies -- who enriched
the United States -- and helped the U.S. enrich the world. //
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( (Collectively, I'm glad to get the former Presidents
together for a very simple reason. I want to find out first-
hand how each of you dealt with it when polls showed your wife
was more popular than you are. )) //
Individually: Here this morning are the 38th President of
the United States, Gerald Ford, and Mrs. Ford. // On behalf of
each American, an entire Nation is grateful for the example of
your lives. // Here, too, are Mrs. Reagan and my distinguished
predecessor, the 40th President of the United States. To Ronald
Reagan, I say: "Thank you for helping us to believe in ourselves
again. We will not forget how you truly blessed America. " / /
Go to Grand Rapids or to Austin and Hyde Park. Go -- in
seven months -- to Santa Barbara. You will see what these
sounds like
Americans and their spouses meant. Their museums and libraries
etch what we are as a Nation, and a people. Their lives exist as
oral history -- passed from one generation to another. //
Last year, nearly more than 1.3 million men and women
visited Presidential museums and libraries. Most were American
-- many of whom don't remember the 37th President of the United
States, or the years 1969-74. They will come here, and wonder:
"What was Richard Nixon, and his Presidency, about?" Let us
provide an answer worthy of America, and of my friend. //
Writing of Richard Nixon, historians will observe many
things. They will note that only FDR ran as many times -- five
-- for national office: Each winning four. And that more people
voted for RN as President than any man in history. // They will
3
talk of Horatio Alger and Alger Hiss, the Great Debates of 1960
and the Great Comeback of '68. Of the book, Six Crises, and the
seventh crisis, Watergate. // They will write of Checkers --
Millie's role model. // And, yes, Mr. President, your answer to
my "Vision thing" -- "Let me make this perfectly clear. " //
We will read of your times as President: Perhaps as
tumultuous as any since Lincoln's. And of your goal as
President: A Nation where peace would link the community of
nations. Yet these are public facts: RN's life was personal.
So let me say what I would tell those who journey to Yorba Linda.
I would say, first: Look at perhaps the truest index of
any man -- his family. Think of his mother -- a gentle Quaker -
ust
the
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- and his father, who built the house not far from here. And his
there
dubher
daughters, Julie and Tricia. Any parent would be proud of
offspring such as these. // Think, finally, of what Good
Housekeeping proclaimed among the most admired women of post-
World War II America. The woman we know, and love, as Pat. //
As First Lady, Pat Nixon championed the Right to Read
program, refurbished the White House and opened it to more
Americans than ever before, and brought the "Parks to People"
program to the disabled and the disadvantaged. She believed the
White House should be alight like Washington's other monuments -
- and so it was. She was our most widely traveled First Lady --
visiting five continents and 22 Nations.
Most of all, she overcame poverty, and tragedy, to become a
parable of America's heart, and love. // When, in 1958, foreign
4
mobs stoned the Nixons' car, she was, a reporter said, "stronger
than any man." Yet it was also Pat who moved pianist Duke
Ellington, at a White House dinner, to improvise a melody. "I
shall pick a name," he said, "gentle, graceful -- like Patricia."
Mrs. Nixon, the Secret Service called you "Starlight." I thank
you for illuminating the true beauty of America. //
Next, I would say to visitors here: Look at the qualities
which, in unison, we refer to as character. // Richard Nixon had
an intellectual's complexity. He was an author / eight books //
each composed on his famous yellow legal pads // who, like his
favorite author, Tolstoy, admired the dignity of manual labor.
He worked in the most pragmatic of arenas -- yet insisted that
"politics is poetry, not prose." He was a patriot -- would not
contest the 1960 Election. He believed in love of country, and
God. He was loyal to friends, and protective of loved ones. He
also liked to laugh -- at a joke, and at himself. //
( (Let me repeat a story which President Nixon himself
enjoys. // One day, greeting an airport crowd, he heard a young
girl shouting, "How is Smokey the Bear?" // then at the
Washington Zoo. The girl kept repeating the question. Not
grasping her words, RN was first baffled -- then turned to an
aide. // "Smokey the Bear," the aide mumbled, inaudibly.
"Washington National Zoo." // Triumphant, President Nixon walked
over, and extended his hand. Said he: "How do you do / Miss
Bear?") ) ///
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Now, I'm not one to criticize verbal confusion. After all,
some say English is my only foreign language. // President Nixon
was merely being sensitive to a child's feelings. Just as he
remembered birthdays with roses, and mailed hand-written letters
to defeated rivals. // When a secretary made a typing error, RN
would save her embarrassment by redictating his memo. When the
POWs returned home in early '73 to a White House Dinner, he saw
that each wife received a corsage. // Richard Nixon was
extraordinarily controversial. He could also be uncommonly kind.
This brings me to what I would next tell those who travel to
Yorba Linda. What President Nixon said of Dwight Eisenhower in a
1969 eulogy was true, also, of RN: He "came from the heart of
America. " Not geographically, perhaps, but culturally. //
Richard Nixon was the quintessence of Middle America, and
touched deep chords of response in millions of her citizens. As
President, upholding what he termed the "Silent Majority" in
Dallas and Davenport, Syracuse and Siler City. Theodore White
said: "Middle America had been without a great leader for
generations, and in Richard Nixon it
elevated a man of
talent and ability." // For millions of Americans, RN became
what they had rarely known: A Voice. Mr. President, as long as I
am President, that voice will not be stilled. //
Finally, I would say to visitors: Richard Nixon helped
change our lives. At home, revenue sharing returned power to the
people. The Environmental Protection Agency allowed us to serve,
and wisely use, our natural resources. In space and technology,
6
the United States reached new horizons. And RN's pioneering
cancer initiative helped not merely to live and let live -- but
to live and help live. // Turning abroad, who can forget
President Nixon's trip to China -- the week which revolutionized
the world? Or how in Moscow, he signed the first agreement of
the nuclear age to limit strategic nuclear arms? He ended the
draft. Was credited by Golda Meir with saving Israel during the
Yom Kippur War. Endured much in the quest for "Peace With Honor"
in Viet Nam. // "Being President," he said, "is nothing compared
with what you can do as President." Mr. President, you helped
achieve what -- above all -- you sought as President: "A
Generation of peace." What you began, we are building on today.
There have been, literally, millions of words written about
Richard Nixon. But let me close with a passage from the
President himself. It was written 20 years ago this May, after
he visited college students, in early dawn, at the Lincoln
Memorial. Where they talked of peace, war, and what the Quakers
call "peace at the center." Returning to the White House,
President Nixon dictated a memorandum. Listen to what it says of
idealism, and conscience. //
"What we must think about," he began, "is what are those
elements of the spirit which really matter." He confessed he
didn't have an answer -- but that students were searching, just
as he had forty years before. //
Then, RN concluded: "I just wanted them [to realize] that
ending the war, and cleaning up the streets, air, and water, was
7
not going to solve spiritual hunger -- which all of us have and
which, of course, has been the great mystery of life from the
beginning of time." ///
Mr. President, like every President, you sought answers to
the challenges which face America. You made a difference for the
Nation that you loved. // Defeated, you came back -- again / and
again / and again. Believing in -- and making real -- a touch of
the American Dream. //
Some people talk of an "Old Nixon," others, a "New." The
Real Nixon has always been good enough for me. // I was proud to
serve you, and that you were my President. Looking back, I am
even prouder today. // God bless you, sir. God bless America.
And now, it is my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce the
37th President of the United States.
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I'LL TELL THE MAN IN
THE STREET
(From the M.G.M. Production "I Married
An Angel")
By Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers
I'll tell the man in the street
And everyone I meet that you and
I are sweethearts.
I'll shout it out from the roof,
I'll give the papers proof,
That we are two complete hearts,
I want the world to know
I'll use the radio.
And when I've said all my say
Until you're old and gray
You'll never get away from me.
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surgent voices ever be accorded a fair
The developments included the
share of the nation's centrally con-
Soviet Communist Party congr ess last
trolled airwaves?
week, at which Mr. Gorbachev scored
an impressive victory over hard I-liners,
Under Mr. Gorbachev's policy of
and the summit meeting of the North
greater freedom of speech and Govern-
Atlantic Treaty Organization in Lon-
ment openness, the Soviet President"
don early this month, at which the
himself has kept the lion's share of un-
Western leaders moved to alter the al-
critical attention and remained the
liance fundamentally and to end for-
daily focus of broadcast news, with
mally the adversarial relationship with
coverage of opposition rebuttals spo-
the Warsaw Pact.
radic at best. It was not immediately
"I told Mr. Chancellor that as the an-
clear whether or to what degree he
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Nixon Library Set to Open,
With Disputes Old and New
By SETH MYDANS
Special The New York Times
YORBA LINDA, Calif., July 11 -
his statement to The Los Angeles
There was one small wrinkle in the
Times that Nixon critics would be
planning for the Richard Nixon Li-
barred. "The President did not know
brary and Birthplace here, one week
about it. R. N. got to it for the first time
before its dedication, and it involved a
on Monday."
familiar question: What did Mr. Nixon
The question of access to the ar-
know and when did he know it?
chives pointed up the sensitivity of Mr.
The question, a refrain from the days
Nixon's supporters about his image as
Associated Press
of the Watergate scandal, arose during
they prepared to open a library that
who is challenging Jesse Helms for the United States
a debate over whether the $21 million
cannot avoid the rough spots in his long
hn a supporter Saturday night in Asheville, N.C.
complex would open its archives to
and bumpy career.
people deemed unfriendly to Mr.
Along with Soviet detente and the
Nixon.
"I don't think we'd ever open the
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of President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
Citing a previous engagement, former
diplomatic opening to China, there will
President Jimmy Carter will not at-
be hibits on Watergate and the dis-
tend the dedication.
grace of resignation and an elaborate
The museum, which opens to the pub-
taped question-and-answer display in
lic the day after the dedication, and the
Mr. Nixon's voice will respond to
underground library, scheduled to open
such persistent questions as, "Why did-
next year, will be run entirely with pri-
n't you burn the tapes?"
vate funds, rather than with govern-
They are questions that Mr. Nixon is
ment support like most other Presiden-
tial libraries.
still answering, almost 16 years after
Mr. Hewitt said that bearing the
resigning the Presidency on Aug. 9,
complex's annual $2 million to $3 mil-
1974. as he continues to tend to his
lion cost would give Mr. Nixon the free-
legacy in interviews, articles and
dom to decide policy questions. But he
books, most recently "In the Arena: A
denied that this would result in any re-
Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Re-
strictions on the library's contents or
newal" published by Simon and Schus-
on access to its materials.
terin-April.
Mr. Nixon has resisted access to
White House documents since the Sen-
Full and Fair Treatment'
ate first requested his tape recordings
MA Hewitt said the museum's
of calls and conversations in the Oval
Watergate exhibit, which was still
Office during its hearings on Water-
ng-completed, would be a "full and
gate. His campaign against disclosure
fair treatment," in chronological or-
has continued in the years since his
der,of Mr. Nixon's fall. But he said it
resignation, and he is currently oppos-
ing efforts by the National Archives to
make public hundreds of thousands of
pages of White House "special files,"
For lovers and
the documents with which he dealt di-
rectly while in office.
haters of Nixon, a
Documents In National Archives
Bart Bartholomew for The New York Times
In 1974 Congress passed the Presi-
place to revel in
The Richard Nixon Library, which, together with the former President's birthplace, is being dedicated this week in Yorba Linda, Calif.
dential Recordings and Materials
Preservation Act, seeking to thwart the
nostalgia.
destruction of files from Mr. Nixon's
Yorba
many visitors would find nostalgic
meeting with Mr. Nixon in the 1950's, is
in the White House, Mr. Nixon has re-
Presidency. The legislation trans-
Linda
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pleasure in the exhibits. For some, it
quoted as saying, "He struck me as one
corded a reminiscence for visitors to
ferred official custody of the Nixon ma-
appears that nostaligia includes the
of those frank and steady personalities
his birthplace, complete with a distant
terials to the Archivist of the United
chance to kick around Mr. Nixon once
on whom one feels one could rely in the
train whistle and thoughts on angel
und be framed in the former Presi-
States, and the National Archives will
continue to house them unless Con-
CALIFORNIA
again.
greatest affairs of state, if ever they
food cake and National Geographic
hr's words, a perspective that has
Los
"I definitely want my picture taken
were to reach the highest office."
magazines. "It was a very happy
onsistently played down the signifi-
gress gives the former President cus-
Angeles
Anaheim
in this setting," said an early visitor
time," Mr. Nixon says.
Lance of the episode and the culpability
tody of them.
outside the still-unopened museum,
Debates and Time Covers
The Nixon library will have space for
0
Speaking of his love of music, Mr.
of Mr. Nixon. The former President
Jim LeMonds of Castle Rock, Wash., as
Nixon suddenly offers an unexpected
10 million documents and could expand
Other exhibits include the 1960 Presi-
wrote in "In the Arena," for example,
he posed with his arms raised in Mr.
dential debates with John F. Kennedy,
aside.
"In retrospect, I would say that Water-
to hold 25 million, Mr. Hewitt said. The
Pacific Ocean
Nixon's double victory gesture.
various political campaigns, the 1959
"I have often thought," he says,
gate was one part wrongdoing, one part
Nixon records at the National Archives
in Alexandria, Va., amount to more
San
"We used to go through the Nixon
"kitchen debate" in Moscow with Mr.
"that if there had been a good rap
blundering and one part political ven-
Diego
routines, the mimicking and so on,"
Khrushchev and the case of Alger Hiss,
group around in those days I might
detta by my enemies."
than 40 million documents.
Mr. LeMonds said. "They need a little
accused of being a Communist spy,
have chosen a career in music instead
Mr. Hewitt said more than $27 mil-
Mr. Hewitt said the library would
house original documents from before
0 Miles 50
MEXICO
statue of him out here with all the
along with such artifacts of the case as
of politics."
lion had already been pledged or con-
Watergate figures lined up behind him,
a hollowed-out pumpkin similar to the
The
tributed to the library and museum
and after Mr. Nixon's Presidency. It
The New York Times
so you could get in there and have your
will have photocopies of the documents
one in which microfilm was said to
from more than 5,000 donors. Notable
among these are William E. Simon, the
The library in Richard Nixon's
picture taken with them. Now, that
in the National Archives, he said.
have been hidden.
Hiker Is Killed by Lightning
would be a bold stroke by the Nixon
For Lovers and Haters, Both
hometown will be open to all.
Along one wall are displayed 30 of the
former Treasury Secretary and presi-
people."
LONE PINE, Calif., July 15 (AP)
67 Time magazine covers on which Mr.
dent of the library foundation; and
Exhibits at the museum will reward
On the other extreme was a veteran
Lightning struck a cabin crowded with
Hewitt said Mr. Nixon appeared either
Walter H. Annenberg, the publisher
of the Battle of the Bulge, who was lob-
13 hikers at the summit of Mount Whit-
both lovers and haters of Mr. Nixon,
tape of March 22, 1972, in which the
alone or as part of a group.
and longtime supporter of Mr. Nixon.
bying to take part in the museum's
ney on Saturday, killing a 26-year-old
the two categories into which Mr. Hew-
President told Attorney General John
The exhibits, and the broad span of
He declined to identify other contribu-
itt said most Americans are divided.
tors.
N. Mitchell that he wanted his aides to
inauguration.
Mr. Nixon's career, are put in dra-
man and injuring at least six other peo-
They will be able to listen to the tele-
"He's not calling and excited about
ple, the authorities said today. The
"stonewall it, plead the Fifth Amend-
matic context by the presence a few
Mr. Nixon has earmarked the royal-
ment, cover up or anything else if it'll
coming here because he wants to see
hikers had gathered inside the 12-foot-
vised address of Sept. 13, 1952, in which
yards from the library of a tiny, white
ties from "In the Arena" for the II-
Mr. Nixon saved his Vice Presidential
the Watergate exhibit," Mr. Hewitt
by-12-foot stone cabin at the summit of
save it, save the plan.'
clapboard house where Mr. Nixon was
brary, and additional money will come
said of the veteran, "but because Nixon
California's tallest mountain during a
from souvenirs and ticket fees.
candidacy by defending himself
But the museum designers chose not
born on Jan. 9, 1913, and where he lived
brought his son home from Vietnam
thunderstorm, said Lieut. Jack Good-
against charges that he had improp-
to have a video or audio presentation of
until he was 9 year old.
and he believes he is a great man."
rich of the Inyo County Sheriff's De-
Reunion of Presidents
erly supplemented his salary with gifts
the "last press conference," after Mr.
Restored in pristine detail, the house
partment.
The pink limestone Spanish-style li-
from wealthy supporters.
Nixon's defeat in the race for Califor-
Inside the museum, one exhibit does
includes the bed in which the future
brary and museum shares a nine-acre
The Watergate exhibit will include
nia governor in 1962, when he told re-
allow visitors to mingle with the life-
President was born and other original
hillside plot with Mr. Nixon's restored
three crucial White House tapes: the
porters, "You won't have Dick Nixon to
size statues of 10 Nixon-era world lead-
furnishings like a dresser, high chair,
boyhood home in this small city 30
"smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972, in
kick around anymore."
ers, arranged as if attending a cocktail
china and books as well as the piano on
miles southeast of Los Angeles.
which Mr. Nixon agreed to ask the Cen-
party. Press a button and the statues of
which he learned to play.
Don't overlook the special
When the building is dedicated July
tral Intelligence Agency to block an in-
Theme of Resiliency
statesmen like Konrad Adenauer, Mao
From the window of the upstairs bed-
19 Mr. Nixon will be joined by Presi-
vestigation of Watergate by the Fed-
A theme of the museum is Mr. Nix-
Zedong and Nikita S. Khrushchev will
room that Mr. Nixon shared with three
Technology Report
dent Bush and former Presidents Ron-
eral Bureau of Investigation; the tape
on's ability to rise from such defeats. A
share their thoughts, in English, about
brothers visitors can see the sprawling
every Wednesday
ald Reagan and Gerald R. Ford, the
of March 21, 1973, in which the White
film to be shown in a central audi-
Mr. Nixon. Recorded texts also de-
one-story library on land once covered
first time four American Presidents
House counsel, John W. Dean 3d, said,
torium is titled: "Never Give Up
scribe these leaders and Mr. Nixon's
by orange and lemon trees at the edge
in Business Day.
have met in public since a gathering at
"We have a cancer within, close to the
R.N. in the Arena."
views of them.
of the Southern California desert.
the White House after the death in 1981
presidency, that is growing;" and the
Mr. Hewitt said he thought that
Charles de Gaulle, speaking of a
Still a lover of audio tapes, as he was
Climb
voices ever
the nation'st centrally
Saviet
rwaves?
week, at which Mr. Gorbach
an impressive victory over
Under Mr. Gorbachev's policy of
and the summit meeting of
freedom of speech and Govern-
Atlantic Treaty Organizati
ment openness, the Soviet President
don early this month, at which the
himself has kept the lion's share of un-
Western leaders moved to after the al-
critical attention and remained the
liance fundamentally and to end for-
daily focus of broadcast news, with
mally the adversarial relationship with
coverage of opposition rebuttals spo-
the Warsaw Pact.
radic at best. It was not immediately
"I told Mr. Chancellor that as the an-
clear whether or to what degree he
Continued on Page A6, Column 5
Continued on Page A6, Column 1
Nixon Library Set to Open,
With Disputes Old and New
By SETH MYDANS
Special to:The New York Times
YORBA LINDA, Calif., July 11 -
his statement to The Los Angeles
There was one small wrinkle in the
Times that Nixon critics would be
planning for the Richard Nixon Li-
barred. "The President did not know
brary and Birthplace here, one week
about it. R. N. got to it for the first time
before its dedication, and it involved a
on Monday."
familiar question: What did Mr. Nixon
The question of access to the ar-
know and when did he know it?
chives pointed up the sensitivity of Mr.
The question, a refrain from the days
Nixon's supporters about his image as
Associated Press
of the Watergate scandal, arose during
they prepared to open a library that
a debate over whether the $21 million
cannot avoid the rough spots in his long
who is challenging Jesse Helms for the United States
hn a supporter Saturday night in Asheville, N.C.
complex would open:[1s its archives to
and bumpy career.
people deemed unificadly to Mr.
Along with Soviet detente and the
Nixon.
INSIDE
"I don't think we'd ever open the
Continued on Page A10, Column 1
doors to Bob Woodward," the library's
News Summary
A2
director, Hugh Hewitt, said recently in
ty and Africa
Thornburgh on Neil Bush
an interview, referring to the Washing-
Editorials/Op-Ed
A14-15
y to decline by the
The Attorney General said he had not
ton Post reporter who helped uncover
Obituaries
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the scandal that began with the break-
t in sub-Saharan Af-
heard "any allegation from a cred-
ible source" that the President's son
in at the offices of the Democratic Na-
SportsMonday
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to the first major
had engaged in criminal action at a
tional Committee in the Watergate
Weather
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d's poor in a decade,
ik. Page A3.
failed savings association. Page D1.
complex on June 17, 1972. He said re-
searchers would "obviously, certainly"
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Bridge
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ks Longer Arms
Publishers Aghast
be screened.
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B5 Weddings
B6
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As Mr. Nixon's staff hurried this
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ercised by their Fed-
week to assure the public that the li-
Letters
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of President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
Citing a previous engagement, former
diplematic opening to China, there will
President Jimmy Carter will not at-
be hibits on Watergate and the dis-
tend the dedication.
grace of resignation and an elaborate
The museum, which opens to the pub-
taped question-and-answer display in
lic the day after the dedication, and the
Mr. Nixon's voice will respond to
underground library, scheduled to open
such persistent questions as, "Why did-
next year, will be run entirely with pri-
n't you burn the tapes?"
vate funds, rather than with govern-
They are questions that Mr. Nixon is
ment support like most other Presiden-
tial libraries.
stiff answering, almost 16 years after
Mr. Hewitt said that bearing the
resigning the Presidency on Aug. 9,
complex's annual $2 million to $3 mil-
1974 as he continues to tend to his
lion cost would give Mr. Nixon the free-
legacy in interviews, articles and
dom to decide policy questions. But he
books, most recently "In the Arena: A
denied that this would result in any re-
Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Re-
strictions on the library's contents or
newal" published by Simon and Schus-
on access to its materials.
terin-April.
Mr. Nixon has resisted access to
White House documents since the Sen-
Full and Fair Treatment'
ate first requested his tape recordings
MA Hewitt said the museum's
of calls and conversations in the Oval
Watergate exhibit, which was still
Office during its hearings on Water-
being-completed, would be a "full and
gate. His campaign against disclosure
"freatment," in chronological or-
has continued in the years since his
Mr. Nixon's fall. But he said it
resignation, and he is currently oppos-
ing efforts by the National Archives to
make public hundreds of thousands of
pages of White House "special files,"
For lovers and
the documents with which he dealt di-
rectly while in office.
haters of Nixon, a
Documents in National Archives
Bart Bartholomew for The New York Times
In 1974 Congress passed the Presi-
place to revel in
The Richard Nixon Library, which, together with the former President's birthplace, is being dedicated this week in Yorba Linda, Calif.
dential Recordings and Materials
Preservation Act, seeking to thwart the
nostalgia.
destruction of files from Mr. Nixon's
Yorba
many visitors would find nostalgic
meeting with Mr. Nixon in the 1950's, is
in the White House, Mr. Nixon has re-
Presidency. The legislation trans-
Linda
15
pleasure in the exhibits. For some, it
quoted as saying, "He struck me as one
corded a reminiscence for visitors to
ferred official custody of the Nixon ma-
appears that nostaligia includes the
of those frank and steady personalities
his birthplace, complete with a distant
terials to the Archivist of the United
chance to kick around Mr. Nixon once
on whom one feels one could rely in the
train whistle and thoughts on angel
uNd be framed in the former Presi-
States, and the National Archives will
hr's words, a perspective that has
continue to house them unless Con-
CALIFORNIA
again.
greatest affairs of state, if ever they
food cake and National Geographic
Los
"I definitely want my picture taken
were to reach the highest office."
magazines. "It was a very happy
onsistently played down the signifi-
gress gives the former President cus-
Angeles
Anaheim
in this setting," said an early visitor
time," Mr. Nixon says.
Lanče of the episode and the culpability
tody of them.
The Nixon library will have space for
a
outside the still-unopened museum,
Debates and Time Covers
Speaking of his love of music, Mr.
of Mr. Nixon. The former President
Jim LeMonds of Castle Rock, Wash., as
Nixon suddenly offers an unexpected
10 million documents and could expand
Other exhibits include the 1960 Presi-
wrote in "In the Arena," for example,
he posed with his arms raised in Mr.
dential debates with John F. Kennedy,
aside.
"In retrospect, I would say that Water-
to hold 25 million, Mr. Hewitt said. The
Pacific Ocean
Nixon's double victory gesture.
various political campaigns, the 1959
"I have often thought," he says,
gate was one part wrongdoing, one part
Nixon records at the National Archives
in Alexandria, Va., amount to more
San
"We used to go through the Nixon
"kitchen debate" in Moscow with Mr.
"that if there had been a good rap
blundering and one part political ven-
Diego
routines, the mimicking and so on,"
Khrushchev and the case of Alger Hiss,
group around in those days I might
detta by my enemies."
than 40 million documents.
Mr. LeMonds said. "They need a little
accused of being a Communist spy,
have chosen a career in music instead
Mr. Hewitt said more than $27 mil-
Mr. Hewitt said the library would
house original documents from before
0 Miles 50
MEXICO
statue of him out here with all the
along with such artifacts of the case as
of politics."
lion had already been pledged or con-
Watergate figures lined up behind him,
a hollowed-out pumpkin similar to the
The
tributed to the library and museum
and after Mr. Nixon's Presidency. It
The New York Times
so you could get in there and have your
from more than 5,000 donors. Notable
will have photocopies of the documents
one in which microfilm was said to
The library in Richard Nixon's
picture taken with them. Now, that
in the National Archives, he said.
have been hidden.
Hiker Is Killed by Lightning
among these are William E. Simon, the
would be a bold stroke by the Nixon
For Lovers and Haters, Both
hometown will be open to all.
Along one wall are displayed 30 of the
former Treasury Secretary and presi-
people."
LONE PINE, Calif., July 15 (AP)
67 Time magazine covers on which Mr.
dent of the library foundation; and
Exhibits at the museum will reward
On the other extreme was a veteran
Hewitt said Mr. Nixon appeared either
Lightning struck a cabin crowded with
Walter H. Annenberg, the publisher
of the Battle of the Bulge, who was lob-
13 hikers at the summit of Mount Whit-
both lovers and haters of Mr. Nixon,
tape of March 22, 1972, in which the
alone or as part of a group.
and longtime supporter of Mr. Nixon.
bying to take part in the museum's
ney on Saturday, killing a 26-year-old
the two categories into which Mr. Hew-
President told Attorney General John
The exhibits, and the broad span of
He declined to identify other contribu-
N. Mitchell that he wanted his aides to
inauguration.
man and injuring at least six other peo-
itt said most Americans are divided.
Mr. Nixon's career, are put in dra-
tors.
They will be able to listen to the tele-
"He's not calling and excited about
ple, the authorities said today. The
"stonewall it, plead the Fifth Amend-
matic context by the presence a few
Mr. Nixon has earmarked the royal-
coming here because he wants to see
hikers had gathered inside the 12-foot-
vised address of Sept. 13, 1952, in which
ment, cover up or anything else if it'll
yards from the library of a tiny, white
ties from "In the Arena" for the li-
Mr. Nixon saved his Vice Presidential
the Watergate exhibit," Mr. Hewitt
by-12-foot stone cabin at the summit of
save it, save the plan.'
clapboard house where Mr. Nixon was
brary, and additional money will come
said of the veteran, "but because Nixon
California's tallest mountain during a
from souvenirs and ticket fees.
candidacy by defending himself
But the museum designers chose not
born on Jan. 9, 1913, and where he lived
brought his son home from Vietnam
thunderstorm, said Lieut. Jack Good-
against charges that he had improp-
to have a video or audio presentation of
until he was 9 year old.
and he believes he is a great man."
rich of the Inyo County Sheriff's De-
Reunion of Presidents
erly supplemented his salary with gifts
the "last press conference," after Mr.
Restored in pristine detail, the house
The pink limestone Spanish-style li-
from wealthy supporters.
Nixon's defeat in the race for Califor-
Inside the museum, one exhibit does
includes the bed in which the future
partment.
brary and museum shares a nine-acre
The Watergate exhibit will include
nia governor in 1962, when he told re-
allow visitors to mingle with the life-
President was born and other original
hillside plot with Mr. Nixon's restored
three crucial White House tapes: the
porters, "You won't have Dick Nixon to
size statues of 10 Nixon-era world lead-
furnishings like a dresser, high chair,
boyhood home in this small city 30
"smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972, in
kick around anymore."
ers, arranged as if attending a cocktail
china and books as well as the piano on
miles southeast of Los Angeles.
which Mr. Nixon agreed to ask the Cen-
party. Press a button and the statues of
which he learned to play.
When the building is dedicated July
tral Intelligence Agency to block an in-
Theme of Resiliency
Don't overlook the special
statesmen like Konrad Adenauer, Mao
From the window of the upstairs bed-
19 Mr. Nixon will be joined by Presi-
vestigation of Watergate by the Fed-
A theme of the museum is Mr. Nix-
Zedong and Nikita S. Khrushchev will
room that Mr. Nixon shared with three
Technology Report
dent Bush and former Presidents Ron-
eral Bureau of Investigation; the tape
on's ability to rise from such defeats. A
share their thoughts, in English, about
brothers visitors can see the sprawling
every Wednesday
ald Reagan and Gerald R. Ford, the
of March 21, 1973, in which the White
film to be shown in a central audi-
Mr. Nixon. Recorded texts also de-
one-story library on land once covered
first time four American Presidents
House counsel, John W. Dean 3d, said,
torium is titled: "Never Give Up
scribe these leaders and Mr. Nixon's
by orange and lemon trees at the edge
in Business Day.
have met in public since a gathering at
"We have a cancer within, close to the
R.N. in the Arena."
views of them.
of the Southern California desert.
the White House after the death in 1981
presidency, that IS growing;' and the
Mr. Hewitt said he thought that
Charles de Gaulle, speaking of a
Still a lover of audio tapes, as he was
wather.
w lson (Smith/Garmey)
July 17, 1990
5 P.M.
Lioa
NIX
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: NIXON LIBRARY
YORBA LINDA, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1990
10:00 A.M.
President and Mrs. Nixon. Barbara and I are delighted to
see you. President and Mrs. Reagan, President and Mrs. Ford.
USA.
Members of the Nixon family. Secretary Simon, Secretary
Mosbacher. Governor Deukmejian, Secretary Schultz, Chief Justice
,Shultz
Burger, Senior Members of the Nixon Administration, Reverend
3 Wilson
Graham, Reverend Peale, Ambassador Moore, Ambassador Annenberg,
Ambassador Zhu-qizhen [JEW KEY-jen], Hugh Hewitt, Vicky Carr.
Guiltran
Those great American heroes -- our Viet Nam Prisoners of War.
O70m6,
Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Mr. President, for that
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introduction. And to all of you, for the privilege of helping to
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dedicate this beautiful Library of the 37th President of the
United States. A.
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To Lincoln, the Presidency helped play -- as he put it --
America's "mystic chords of memory." To TR, the Presidency meant
Cosuceed
the "bully pulpit" -- calling on America's boundless energy. And
was Dwight Eisenhower -- beloved Ike -- who described its
power "to proclaim anew our faith," and summon "lightness against
the dark." "
To occupy this office is to feel a kinship with these and
other Presidents. Each of whom, in his own way, sought to do
right -- and thus achieve good. // Each summoned the best from
lega 100 then
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the idea we call America. And each wondered, I suspect, how they
could be worthy of God, and man. //
This year, an estimated 1.5 million people will visit
Presidential museums and libraries. Exploring the lives of these
Presidents passed down -- like oral history -- from one
generation to another. // They will see how each President is
like a finely-cut prism with many facets. Their achievements,
and their philosophy. Their family, and their humanity. //
For instance, seventy miles from here visitors will soon see
the library of my distinguished predecessor, the 40th President
of the United States, and Mrs. Reagan. To Ronald Reagan, I say:
"We will not soon forget how you truly blessed America. " //
Look, next, to Michigan -- where a museum and library honors
the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, and Mrs.
Ford. An entire Nation is grateful for your leadership and love
of country. //
Tomorrow morning, the first visitors will enter our newest
Presidential Library. They will note that only FDR ran as many
times as Richard Nixon -- five -- for national office: Each
winning four elections. And that more people voted for Richard
Nixon as President than any other man in history. // They will
hear of Horatio Alger and Alger Hiss. of the book, Six Crises,
and the seventh crisis, Watergate. // They will think of
Checkers -- Millie's role model. // And, yes, Mr. President,
they will hear again your answer to my "Vision thing" -- "Let me
make this perfectly clear." //
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Many of these visitors will know of your times as President:
Perhaps as tumultuous as any since Lincoln's. And of your goal
as President: A world where peace would link the community of
nations. Yet other young visitors will not remember the years
1969-74. They had not even been born when Richard Nixon became
President. So to help them understand our 37th President, here
is what I would tell those who journey to Yorba Linda. //
I would say, first: Look at perhaps the truest index of
any man -- his family. Think of his mother -- a gentle Quaker -
- and his father, who built their small frame house less than 100
yards from here. And his daughters, Tricia and Julie. Any
parent would be proud of children with the loyalty and love of
these two women. // Think, finally, of a gracious First Lady who
ranks among the most admired women of post-war America. The
woman we know, and love, as Pat. //
As First Lady, Pat Nixon championed the Right to Read
program, and helped bring the "Parks to People" program to the
disadvantaged. She refurbished the White House and opened it to
more people than ever before. She was our most widely traveled
First Lady -- visiting five continents and 22 Nations.
Overcoming the poverty and tragedy of her childhood to become a
mirror of America's heart, and love. // When, in 1958, foreign
mobs stoned the Nixons' car, she was, an observer said, "stronger
than any man.' Yet it was also Pat who moved pianist Duke
Ellington, at a White House dinner, to improvise a melody. "I
shall pick a name," he said, "gentle, graceful -- like Patricia."
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// Mrs. Nixon, the Secret Service called you "Starlight." Your
husband has said it best: You "fit that name to a T. //
Next, I would say to visitors here: Look at Richard Nixon
the man. // He had an intellectual's complexity. He was an
author / eight books // each composed on his famous yellow legal
pads // who, like his favorite author, Tolstoy, admired the
dignity of manual labor. He worked in the most pragmatic of
arenas -- yet insisted that "politics is poetry, not prose. " //
He believed in love of country, and in God -- in loyalty to
friends, and protecting loved ones. He was also a soft touch
when it came to kids. // Believe me, I can empathize. //
( (Let me repeat a story which President Nixon himself
enjoys. // One day, greeting an airport crowd, he heard a young
girl shouting, "How is Smokey the Bear?" // at that time, living
in the Washington Zoo. The girl kept repeating the question.
Not understanding her words, the President turned to an aide for
translation. // "Smokey the Bear," the aide mumbled, pointing to
the girl. "Washington National Zoo." // Triumphant, President
Nixon walked over, extended his hand, and said: "How do you do /
Miss Bear?") ) ///
Now, I'm not one to criticize verbal confusion. After all,
some say English is my only foreign language. // President Nixon
was merely being kind. Just as he mailed hand-written letters to
defeated rivals like his friend Hubert Humphrey. Or saw that
when the POWS returned home in early '73 to a White House Dinner,
each wife received a corsage. // Just as Richard Nixon was
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extraordinarily controversial, he could also be uncommonly
sensitive to the feelings of other people. //
This brings me to what I would next tell those who travel to
Yorba Linda. What President Nixon said of Dwight Eisenhower in a
1969 eulogy was true, also, of himself: He "came from the heart
of America. " Not geographically, perhaps, but culturally. //
Richard Nixon was the quintessence of Middle America, and
touched deep chords of response in millions of her citizens. As
President, upholding what he termed the "Silent Majority" from
Dallas to Davenport, Syracuse to Siler City. // He loved
America's good, quiet, decent people; he spoke for them; he
felt, deeply, on their behalf. // Theodore White would say:
"Middle America had been without a great leader for generations,
and in Richard Nixon it
elevated a man of talent and
ability. // For millions of Americans, this President became
something they had rarely known: A voice -- speaking loudly, and
eloquently, for their values and their dreams. //
Finally, and most importantly, I would say to visitors:
Richard Nixon helped change the course not only of America but of
the entire world. He believed in returning power to the people.
So he created revenue sharing. // And that young people should
be free to choose their futures. So Richard Nixon ended the
draft. // He helped the United States reach new horizons in
space and technology. Began a pioneering cancer initiative that
gave hope and life to millions. // He knew that the great
outdoors is precious, but fragile. So he created the
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Environmental Protection Agency -- an historic step to help
preserve, and wisely use, our natural resources. //
All of this Richard Nixon did. Yet future generations will
remember him most for dedicating his life to the greatest cause
offered any President -- the cause of peace among Nations. //
Richard Nixon endured much in his quest for "Peace With
Honor" in Viet Nam. He knew that true peace means the triumph of
freedom -- not merely the absence of war. // As President, he
served this country's special mission to help those around the
world for whom America has always been a "morning star of
liberty." Engaging in diplomatic summitry -- and helping change
the post-war bi-polar globe. //
Who can forget how in Moscow, Richard Nixon signed the first
agreement to limit strategic nuclear arms -- giving new hope to
the world for lasting peace? // Or how he planted the first
fragile seeds of peace in the Middle East: Golda Meir credited
him with saving Israel during the Yom Kippur War. // Even now,
memories resound of President Nixon's trip to China -- the week
that revolutionized the world. No American President had ever
stood on the soil of the People's Republic of China. As Richard
Nixon stepped from Air Force One and extended his hand to Chou
En-lai, his vision ended more than two decades of isolation. //
"Being President," he often said, "is nothing compared with what
you can do as President." Mr. President, you worked with every
fiber of your being to help achieve "A Generation of Peace. " //
Today, as the movement toward democracy sweeps our globe, you can
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take great pride that history will say of you: "Here was a true
architect of peace "
There have been, literally, millions of words written about
Richard Nixon. But let me close with a passage from the
President himself. It comes from his first Inaugural Address --
January 20, 1969 -- where the new President spoke of how "the
greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. "//
He began by noting that within the lifetime of most present,
mankind would celebrate a new year which occurs only once in a
thousand years -- the start of a new millennium. And that
America had the chance to "lead the world onto that high ground
of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization."
Finally, Richard Nixon concluded: "If we succeeed,
generations to come will say of us that we helped make the world
safe for mankind. I believe the American people are ready to
answer this call." //
Mr. President, you helped America answer its "summons to
greatness. " Thank you for serving the cause of peace. God bless
you and your family. And now, it is my distinct pleasure and
honor to introduce the 37th President of the United States.
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