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The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, Yorba Linda, CA
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he Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, situated on nine rolling acres, offers visitors a rare
glimpse into the events, people and world that
shaped, and were shaped by the 37th
President of the United States. The Library’s 52,000 square
feet is now undergoing an almost 100% expansion with
the new Katherine B. Loker Center scheduled to open in
September of 2004. The Loker Center includes, along
with the new Annenberg Court entrance pavilion and
reception center, a full-size replica of the White House East
Room, a 4,100 square-foot special exhibit gallery, and a
large hall for private events and conference facilities.
Since its opening on July 20, 1990, the Nixon museum has
attracted nearly 2.5 million visitors and created the most
ambitious special exhibition and event programming of
any Presidential Library in the nation. It was the
President’s specific wish that the Library complex not be
a sleepy, stodgy museum, but rather a vibrant, ever-changing landscape against which visitors, particularly young
people, could learn more about the Presidency, our country and the world. As a “performing arts center for public
affairs,” the library’s year-round programming features
national policy conferences, study groups, town meetings,
school editor forums, and a continual schedule of distinguished speakers and authors from government, politics,
the media, and public affairs.
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Langdon Wilson, Architects