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April 13, 2018
Nixon Library
Photos from my visit to the Nixon Library a couple of weeks ago.
This video shows the corridor through which you enter the museum with iconic images of the troubled '60s on both walls, leading to what I suppose is intended as the solution to all of the problems: Nixon. I added the music which is "Scene II: Interlude" from Orpheus by Stravinsky.
The 1972 electoral votes. I'd forgotten that in addition to Massachusetts, McGovern also carried the District of Columbia.
A moon rock and the phone Nixon used to talk to the astronauts. I tried, but couldn't get, a clear shot of buttons attached the phone. They're for different extensions in the White House and were labeled "Haldemanm," "Ehrlichman" and so on.
Can you believe it? Right there in the Nixon Library a copy of Mao's Little Red Book.
Nixon birthplace and childhood home. It is still in the exact location and with the same orientation as when Nixon's father built it.
View of the library from the Nixon home.
Nixon wore this button on his Whittier College letter jacket. I was very surprised that he was so far ahead of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. If you are old enough, you surely remember these six seconds from that show:
They had a substantial exhibit about Watergate that did not try to whitewash the scandal. I have already listened to the 18½ minute gap, so I skipped this part of the exhibit. They had a display showing the locations of microphones used by FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ and Nixon. Nixon had WAAAAAY more than any other President and was the only President who put a recording device in the President's office at Camp David.
Casualty report from Vietnam for January 20, 1969. Do you recall these casualty reports being delivered to the public weekly on national news? Every time there was some number of Americans killed, then the number of ARVN (south Vietnam) soldiers killed would be something much larger than the American number, and finally the number of Viet Cong and NVA (North Vietnam) would be a astronomically higher than either of the other two. For example, for the current week shown in this photo there were 185 Americans killed, 336 ARVN and 2,742 VC and NVA. I think if you add up all the reported numbers killed for the VC and NVA throughout the entire war it would indicate every resident of North Vietnam had died at least twice.
Everybody's entitled to their opinion.
How might history be different if someone had bought him some train tickets?
The complete set of photos can be seen here.
Filed under California,History | permalink | April 13, 2018 at 08:47 PM
