The Richard Nixon Foundation is a not-for-profit organization based at the

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and burial site of Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States (1969–1974), and his wife Pat Nixon. Located in Yorba Linda, California, on land th ...

in Yorba Linda, California. It was founded in August 1983 by

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...

, 37th

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, and served as the governing body of the Nixon Library for nearly twenty years. Today it operates the Nixon Library in conjunction with the

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,Richard Nixon library offers candid new take on Watergate
Syracuse.com, Associated Press, 31 March 2011, accessed November 2011 which is an entity of the federal government of the United States, in addition to undertaking charitable and education-based activities. The Nixon Foundation founded, controlled and operated the Nixon Library from the library's dedication on July 19, 1990 until July 11, 2007, at which the Foundation invited the National Archives to take control. The two entities signed a joint operating agreement which allowed the library to become officially known as the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, welcoming it into the national system of presidential libraries. This move allowed President Nixon's White House documents to be moved to his library in Yorba Linda. The Nixon Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors, led by former Nixon White House domestic adviser James H. Cavanaugh. The board includes President Nixon's daughters

Tricia Nixon Cox Patricia Nixon Cox ( Nixon; born February 21, 1946) is the elder daughter of the 37th United States president Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, and sister to Julie Nixon Eisenhower. She is married to Edward F. Cox and is the mother of Chr ...

and

Julie Nixon Eisenhower Julie Nixon Eisenhower ( Nixon; born July 5, 1948) is an American author who is the younger daughter of former U.S. president Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon. Her husband David is the grandson of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

, former Ambassador

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former California Governor

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, nationally-known radio host

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and longest-serving Vietnam War POW Everett Alvarez Jr. The Foundation's President and CEO is Jim Byron. Nixon Library and Gardens

The Foundation has hosted United States presidents, first ladies and several

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. Also hosted have been public affairs commentators such as Bill O'Reilly, academics such as

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, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. The library includes "Meet the Presidents," in which presidential impersonators speak to several hundred school-aged children. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Nixon Foundation brought 16 tons of warped steel from the

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and a damaged, first-responder FDNY firetruck to the Nixon Library for viewing. Before the National Archives took over its management, the Nixon Library had been accused by several media outlets of glossing over Nixon's 1974 resignation with "whitewashed" exhibits. In 2007, the National Archives removed the 17 year old Watergate exhibit and, after three years, the new exhibit was scheduled to open in July 2010. The Nixon Foundation objected to the proposed exhibit, because the Nixon Foundation was not consulted in the way that other presidential foundations had been consulted with similar situations. The Foundation filed a 158-page memorandum to the Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries expressing their dissatisfaction and NARA stated a committee would review the objection but gave no timeline for when that process would be concluded. The exhibit opened on March 31, 2011."Nixon Library Opens a Door Some Would Prefer Left Closed"
by

Adam Nagourney Adam Nagourney (born October 10, 1954) is an American journalist who covered the 2020 presidential race for ''The New York Times''. Life and career Nagourney was born in New York City and graduated from the State University of New York at Purcha ...

, "

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", March 31, 2011 (April 1, 2011 p.A19 NY ed.). Retrieved 2011-04-01.

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