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Article: Yorba Linda's new high-tech museum for a home-town boy. (Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- November 1, 1990
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Coming home on a hot, hazy morning alive with the sounds of marching bands and the praise of his successors, the country's only California-born president emerged from the wilderness once again and for another day found himself at the center of American political life.
Richard Nixon returned to Yorba Linda for last July's opening of his presidential library, a $21-million archive and museum sited next to both the small white farmhouse he was born in and a 150-year-old California pepper tree he played in as a boy. The high-tech facility covers all the major events of his long roller-coaster version of the American Dream-from the early years when trains rumbling ...