ABSTRACT
One of Richard Nixon's poker hands-a pair of deuces-is framed, under glass, just inside the entrance to the Nixon Library and birth' place in Yorba Linda. This is an odd thing to frame, but then the Nixon Library is a very odd, very interesting place. The creators of the library did the same thing in showcasing Nixon on television. Around a TV set, they created an old-fashioned living room, thus associating Nixon with family warmth and middle-class values. At the gift shop, rock-and-roll nostalgia is available in many items, including T-shirts and postcards, showing Nixon with Elvis Presley. But the nostalgia strategy, if that's what it is, is certainly ruined by the Richard Milhous Nixon interactive television forum. Here one selects a question from a Jeopardy-like electronic board, and Nixon jumps on screen to answer it.
