Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace ( Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace ) is the presidential library of Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, and is located at 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard No. in Yorba Linda California. The 36,000 square meter campus is located on the grounds around the house where Nixon was born and spent his childhood, now in a suburban area of Anaheim, California, near the California State Highway 57 and the California State Highway 90 (known as the Imperial Highway).

From its dedication until 11 July 2007, the Nixon library was not part of the system, the president libraries NARA, but owned by the Richard Nixon Foundation, a private foundation. In July 2007 she was transferred to the administration of the NARA and thus the 12th President of the USA Library. About 46 million pages of official records of the White House in the Nixon Administration NARA Center in College Park ( Maryland), which were kept from 1974 ( PRMPA ) according to the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act here, since transferred to Yorba Linda. The " rod for the documents President Nixon " ( Nixon Presidential Materials Staff ), also called Nixon project, has no connection with the Nixon library, but it has borrowed materials in the past. ( See also controversies surrounding the Nixon records )

Facilities

The Nixon Library Museum, located in a 4,800 - m ² building was opened on 19 July 1990 and tells the story of Nixon's life and career. Behind the museum is the birthplace of the Asumption of Nixon's father's house, which was restored in the condition as it was in 1910. The graves of Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon are located on the grounds of place of birth.

The collections of the Library

The archive was opened in March 1994 and contains approximately 6.2 million pages of records and extensive photographs, film reels and sound recordings.

Central collection

The main holdings of the Nixon Library are documents and items of Nixon's private and public life.

  • Contain private papers before his time as president, the election campaign documents 1946-1968
  • Records of Richard Nixon's political career, including his time earlier in the House of Representatives and Senate from 1947 to 1952.
  • Special documents from his time as vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Foreign correspondence 1947-1968
  • Special correspondence with, for example, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and J. Edgar Hoover
  • Files to correspondence, work, travel and performances from the period 1963-1968
  • Two more rows to research topics: 1960 and 1968
  • Documents from the period after his presidency, from August 1974 to April 1994

Donations

  • Acker, Marje and Phil: Material to the Republican Party, Mrs. Acker's position as a member of Richard Nixon's staff and the work of Ackers to Nixon's campaign.
  • Baures, Ruth Porter: collection of anti-communist publications including government hearings and investigations into communist activities. Also to include a more complete set of the hearings of the Committee on Un-American machinations.
  • Daily, Peter H.: Materials for the November Group of the Presidential election campaign in 1972.
  • Day, Roy O.: acts by Richard Nixon's main campaign manager in 1946, who was a longtime political supporter.
  • Dorn, Evlyn: Papers of Richard Nixon's first Minister of Justice? (First secretary in legal matters? ) (First legal secretary ), Mrs. Frank Nixon in correspondence supported.
  • Doss, Martha M.: Materials for social and ceremonial functions ( social functions) during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
  • Drown, Helene and Jack: collection and chronicle for the period 1942-1994, which is the close friendship of the Drowns and Nixon.
  • Ferman, Irving Materials to Mr. Ferman service in President Eisenhower's Committee on Government contracts.
  • Finch, Robert H.: The papers of Robert Finch, 1940 - 1990.
  • Flemming, Harry S.: files to Flemming's work in Richard Nixon's transition team and government.
  • Friedersdorf, Max l: papers to serve Mr. Frieder village as special assistant to President Nixon.
  • Haldeman, Harry Robbins: Material to Mr. Halde Mans work of Richard Nixon (1956-1973) and the court cases against him as assistant to the president.
  • Hyk, John M.: photographs, letters and collectibles of individuals who had to do with the Watergate investigation.
  • Hyland, William G.: books and papers to the U.S. defense and foreign policy.
  • Foliage, C. Herbert: collection of autographs of the President and other major U.S. personalities.
  • McCall, Harrison: Papers of Richard Nixon's early campaign manager and longtime supporters.
  • Morehead, Carlos S.: Collection of books on impeachment investigation in the Watergate case. Also contains The Papers of the Continental Congress, and volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States, United States Treaties and Other International Agreements.
  • Robinson, Julie Marr: A collection of press dossiers for the First Lady Pat Nixon.
  • Simon, William E.: copies on microfiche / microfilm from Simon Papers, at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
  • Thomas, J. Parnell: Notes (clipping scrapbooks ) to the work of the Committee on Un-American machinations until 1952.
  • Walker, Anne and Ron: Materials to Ron Walker's preparatory work for Richard Nixon's historic trip in 1972 in the People's Republic of China. It also contains items of Mr. Walker in Nixon's election campaigns and Nixon's government.
  • Young, Earl J.: Material to Richard Nixon's visit to Long An, Vietnam (1964) and Da Nang, Vietnam (1967).

Controversies surrounding the Nixon records

Traditional materials and records of a U.S. president as his personal property were considered as soon as he gave up his office. However, the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon's resignation complicated the matter.

On September 8, 1974 Richard Nixon struck a deal with the head of the General Services Administration, Arthur F. Sampson. Nixon would most of the material of his presidency passed including the tape recordings that he had made in the White House. However, the tape recordings should be destroyed on Nixon's instruction to go after September 1, 1979 or until September 1, 1984 or at his death.

Alarmed that tapes documenting the Nixon years in the White House could be lost, Congress repealed the so-called Nixon - Sampson agreement by Act of Parliament S.4016, signed by President Gerald Ford on 19 December 1974 and therefore the statutory Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act was. It is particularly acute for the materials of the Nixon Presidency that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA ) to to take possession of the materials and to edit the material as quickly as possible. Private material should be returned in Nixon's possession, while those records that " the understanding of abuse of power by government and Watergate relevant ' and the material will be provided to the normal constitutional and statutory duties of the President and the staff of the whites of the public are welcome to use should.

The sighting of the tapes was completed by NARA in 1987, but only 63 hours, the records of the White House had been released 1974-1992. In March of that year complained of specialized historian Stanley I. Kutler President, a professor of history and law at the University of Wisconsin, along with the legal group Public Citizen, to speed up the release of the Nixon materials. Nixon intervened and argued that the NARA the return of private conversations should be given priority and in August 1993 he received a court order, which instructed the NARA to interrupt the further release of tapes would be returned to any private or personal materials at Nixon.

Due to the legal situation, the Nixon library was built and operated, instead of being managed by NARA as a private foundation. The clashes are continued after Richard Nixon's death in April 1994.

On April 12, 1996, the three contending parties reached an agreement under which the court order was lifted and a plan for the shares was set up. The first materials that were published after this agreement - 205 hours excerpts from conversations concerning the abuse of power of the government - were made available on 18 November 1996. The second release on 16 October 1997 consisted of 154 hours of complete conversations that were held in the Cabinet Room from February 1971 until the end of July 1973. The first chronological release took place on 5 October 1999 instead and consisted of 443 hours of complete conversations from February to July 1971. The second chronological release was on 26 October 2000 and consisted of 420 hours of complete conversations from August to the end of December 1971. Including conversations that were conducted in the Oval Office, in the old office of the President in the Executive Office Building and its phones.

The Nixon Foundation is - in accordance with Kutler / Public Citizen - the view that NARA is not entitled to withhold copies or originals of the personal and private materials, in compliance with the Presidential Records Act 1978, which excludes such things from those who owned the United States, when a president gives up the office.

Similar controversies to release the records of the President were made to the documents of the governments of John F. Kennedy and George Herbert Walker Bush.

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