A small hiatus

We were surprisingly very productive and efficient on our first day in the LA area, so we decided to use Tuesday to enjoy the day for ourselves and do what probably no one does during their wedding week travel: visit two presidential libraries in a single day. We visited the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, and the Reagan Library, which was huge and sprawling and even included an Air Force One, in Simi Valley. Both were grand and beautiful in their own ways, but both also managed to gloss over all the negative aspects of both presidencies, such as Nixon’s Watergate scandal and ultimate resignation from the presidency, and Reagan’s previous wife and first daughter, and how he used to be a Democrat in his life pre-presidency. Revisionist history never really works, especially when smart Americans rarely forget what really happened in the past.

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