I have a travel goal of visiting the homes/museums of all U.S. Presidents. Nixon was one of the remaing ones to visit.

I was quite impressed with the place in Yorba Linda. It was dedicated in 1990. That was about four years before he died. I had not known that Nixon was born in this area. His quite small house was on the grounds. The docent was telling me that the entire library/museum for Nixon is much smaller than the one for Reagan (which is about an hour's drive in Simi Valley).

I skipped watching the half-hour long film about Nixon. He was President during my high school and college days. The tour of the inside of the small house I also skipped. The Presidential helicopter was there but was unavailable for tours because of some work being done on it.

What was interesting to me is that as I walked through the Pat Nixon rose garden I felt a profound sense of peace wash over me. Cannot explain where that came from but it went away as I walked out of that garden. And the flowers were not even in bloom (as you can see from the photograph). But I absolutely felt it. The world changed for me in that moment. I liked that feeling.