Subject: Birthplace Foundation

• Executive Director John Taylor Leaving Nixon Foundation for Clergy

  The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced today that John H. Taylor, the foundation's executive director since it opened in 1990 and before that Nixon's chief of staff, is leaving Sunday to become the full-time vicar (or priest in charge) at St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church and School in Rancho Santa Margarita. Taylor, who is shown here with his daughter Valerie and the former president in the 1980s, on Jan. 20 sent a formal letter of resignation to board chairman Kris

  February 10, 2009

• Setting the Record Straight at the Nixon Library

  Hopefully, this item on the looming depature of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation's longtime executive director, John H. Taylor, makes it clear that he fronted a separate entity from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. I say hopefully because that distinction was not clear in an earlier post that called the foundation the "funding arm" of the Nixon Library. That mistake brought my boss a polite-but-swift letter from Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

  February 10, 2009

• Historians: Lots of Presidents Worse Than OC's Favorite Disgraced Son

  It was mused here previously that, based on their respective (low) popularity ratings, George W. Bush was more despised upon leaving the presidency than Orange County's favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon, which prompted our tip of the press hat to the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda for their masterful, decades-in-the-making-Nixon makeover. Well, it seems those low ratings must have also influenced the nation's historians, w

  February 17, 2009

• Nip Tuck

  Dick Tuck is not a new procedure offered by your plastic surgeon but a "legendary political hoaxster" and former frequent tormentor of Orange County Disgraced Favorite Son Richard Nixon, whose visit from Arizona to a friend's home in Colorado drew the ink-stained wretches of the Aspen Daily--and later the snubbery of the all-around wretches at TheNewNixon.org, the ever-fascinating blog of the Yorba Linda-based, Nixon-boostering Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation.The

  March 27, 2009

• Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager Rate Obama at Nixon Library

  Awe-inspiring? Vomit-inducing? Noise-abatement requiring? You be the judge as the 12-city national tour of News Talk 870-KRLA's syndicated radio triple threat--Irvine attorney-Chapman U law prof-MSM hater Hugh Hewitt, Zionist-unilateralist-culture war-declarer Dennis Prager and some guy named Michael Gallagher--stops at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda May 4 to pontificate on "Obama, the First 100 Days."Since the National Archives is not over my shoulder as I write this, let m

  March 27, 2009

• They Live!

  October 8, 1998

• Nixon Library Museum Store is Green With Ennui

  The private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation (not to be confused with the public Richard Nixon Library and Museum) has really gotten into the spirit of Earth Day. The foundation is directing shoppers to its cash cow, the museum store, with an email blast that states:Celebrate Earth Day Keep It GreenDid you know? Richard Nixon was the first "environmental President."In 1970 he established the Environmental Protection Agency.Thank you Mr. PresidentIf you hear "You're welcome" from

  April 17, 2009

• Taylor: Start the Feud With Jonathan Alter Without Me

  AlterIn his new collection of his Newsweek columns since the 1990s, Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture, Jonathan Alter revisits the Bushes, the Clintons, Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra and Rush Limbaugh. John Taylor, who left as executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda to become an Episcopalian priest in Rancho Santa Margarita, was not only surprised to learn he turns up in the Alter tome but that he was apparen

  May 7, 2009

• WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

  John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive folks--if that's even possible--that I'm forgetting.After the partisan Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation that had been running the place turned over the keys to the National Archives--w

  June 10, 2009

• Nixon Foundation Kicks Around John Dean, Tim Naftali

  Dean riles Nixonites, again and again. The most interesting part of Melody Chiu's Register report on former Nixon White House counsel John Dean speaking at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Wednesday night was not the speech itself, but the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation's attempts to torpedo that and other "controversial" events presented by the National Archives.  As Michael Mello revealed in an earlier Register piece, the foundat

  June 18, 2009

• Richard Nixon Lovers Hate Kids and Christmas!

  To demonstrate its displeasure with the federally run Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum having booked an appearance by former Nixon White House counsel [and current Nixonite Watergate fall guy] John Dean, the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation last month pulled back $150,000 it had pledged to co-sponsor events at the Yorba Linda facility. This proved no big whoop at first as the federal government made up for the shortfall at the museum, which is part

  July 21, 2009

• And Speaking of John Dean in Orange County . . .

  UPDATED WITH CORRECTED GENDER FOR ONE MAN, JOB DESCRIPTION FOR ANOTHER (THANK YOU, REV. TAYLOR). Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, whose June appearance drew 300 people to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and the wrath of the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation, is returning to Orange County next month."The Fullerton Public Library proudly presents an author talk with John W. Dean, best-selling author of Worse Than Watergate," states the fli

  July 21, 2009

• Got Any Good Richard Nixon Toilet Paper Jokes?

  Presented without comment: Ok, actually, we'll comment...

  May 28, 2009

• George McGovern Spreads Peace at the Warring Nixon Library

  George McGovern, peacemaker​It took former U.S. Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota) to bring peace to the library and museum dedicated to the memory of his opponent in the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon.  Ten weeks after the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced it was ending co-sponsorships with the federally funded Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum over the museum-sponsored, June 17 appearance by John Dean, the foundation and mus

  August 25, 2009