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To: Androcles

From the website:

The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace opened its doors on July 19, 1990 with celebration, fanfare and more than 50,000 friends and well wishers including Presidents Nixon, Bush, Reagan and Ford and their First Ladies.

It is a privately supported, non-profit institution dedicated to educating the public about the life and times of the 37th President and encouraging interest in history, government and public affairs.


As such I would think it could portray Nixon any way it wants.

It’s beyond me why they would hire such a left-wing nut to run it and change things to NOT reflect the point of view of the President.


6 posted on 06/18/2009 10:10:25 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Gitmo detainees to Alcatraz!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

For all of his faults, Richard Nixon did not want any taxpayer money to be used to run his presidential library, so for 17 years after it opened, the Nixon Library could proudly boast that it was the country’s only presidential library that received no public funds whatsoever.

However, its archives did not include Nixon’s presidential papers which, by law, are the property of the federal government. So after many years of negotiations, the Nixon Foundation agreed to turn most of the Nixon Library over to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) so it could house the presidential papers. Parts of the facility, such as Nixon’s birthplace, are still controlled by the Nixon Foundation, but most of it now belongs to NARA, and the Foundation has no control over who runs it.


10 posted on 06/18/2009 10:36:22 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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