Nixon library’s changes start with Watergate

The LA Times Takes A Look At The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda, which they say, has long been the most kicked-around of presidential libraries, and nothing invited more ridicule than the dim, narrow room purporting to describe the scandal that drove its namesake from office. In late March, however, workers roped off the Watergate gallery and methodically began to destroy it. Armed with hammers, a crowbar, a screw gun and a Sawzall, they yanked big display cabinets out of the floor, sliced through tough fiberboard panels, detached more than 100 fluorescent lighting tubes and removed the long strips of plexiglass that had sandwiched text transparencies.

July 11, 2007 by Uncategorized 1

You may also like...

1 Response

  1. Anonymous Patron says:
    July 12, 2007 at 12:57 am

    A sign of what’s to come.
    From the linked article…


    Venturing into that room, visitors learned that Watergate, which provoked a constitutional crisis and became an enduring byword for abuses of executive power, was really a “coup” engineered by Nixon enemies. The exhibit accused Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein — without evidence — of “offering bribes” to further their famous coverage.


    Most conspicuous was a heavily edited, innocent-seeming version of the “smoking gun” tape of June 23, 1972, the resignation-clinching piece of evidence in which Nixon and his top aide are heard conspiring to thwart the FBI probe of Watergate.


    This was history as Nixon wanted it remembered, a monument to his decades-long campaign to refurbish his name.

    After the George W. Bush Presidential Library is built, I’m sure this will look quaint in comparison.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

LISNews Archives