{"id":16077,"date":"2015-07-01T18:29:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T23:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=16077"},"modified":"2021-10-14T06:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:23:53","slug":"nothing-named-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/nothing-named-nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Nothing Named for Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I joked as I wrote More Presidential County Sorting<\/a> that nobody will ever name a county for disgraced former U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon who resigned in 1974 in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal<\/a>. That led me to wonder, well, had anyone ever named anything<\/em> for him? Maybe I was being overly harsh? Actually I learned that if someone would like to undertake one of the loneliest search engine queries in history, try variations on “named for [after, in honor of] Richard [M] Nixon.” I found precious few results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pickings were so slim that I had a difficult time finding photos to illustrate the article so I decided to use this iconic image of Richard Nixon meeting Elvis Presley<\/a> in 1970. Enjoy that for a little while as I attempt to unspool the very small set of actual confirmed places named for Tricky Dick<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yorba Linda, California<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I began with the obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, naturally a Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum<\/a> existed (map<\/a>). And of course, that bore the Richard Nixon name. Obviously that was true by definition so I’m not even sure it should count. It sits in Yorba Linda, California, the town where Hannah Milhous Nixon birthed a son in 1913.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nixon established his presidential library on land adjacent to his childhood home, a prominent feature of the museum complex. There also used to be a Richard Nixon elementary school nearby although it closed in 1988 due to declining enrollment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nixon had the distinction of being the president who died farthest from his birthplace (as proven by 12MC<\/a> — a great circle distance of 2,436 miles \/ 3,920 kilometers). He made up for that by being buried on the grounds of his library within feet of his birthplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, a stretch of Imperial Highway<\/a> through Yorba Linda became The Richard M. Nixon Parkway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It didn’t surprise Twelve Mile Circle to see a few Nixon tributes scattered about his home town. What about other places though?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elsewhere In the United States<\/h2>\n\n\n\n