The Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, celebrated Presidents’ Day Feb. 20 with day-long festivities with free pie, presidential re-enactments, and half-off tickets.
Visitors are greeted by president lookalikes of George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Andrew Jackson—each sharing memorabilia from the former leaders’ lives, followed by their speeches in the twinkling, chandelier-lit White House East Ballroom replica.
At Washington and Lincoln’s tables, visitors touched the actual 8-pound cannon balls used during the revolutionary and civil wars and learned about guns and pistols from each era, and appreciated other rare artifacts on loan from various museums across the country….