R.I.P., Tricky Dick

Here's the scene at the Richard M. Nixon Museum and Birthplace on the day after Nixon's death.  This is just a tiny portion of the flowers, candles, heartfelt notes, etc. that were placed there by the thousands of Orange County residents that visited the RMNM&B during their spontaneous outpouring of Grief.  Below is a photo I shot in the parking lot of Pick-N-Pull Auto Wrecking of an apparition which, to this day, attracts the sick and infirm to the sacred site, hoping for the healing touch of St. Nix to cure them.

Not only was I at the Nixon Museum and Birthplace right after he died, I was there on the day, four years earlier, that they opened the place.  Four Republican Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush) were there to give speeches, but I didn't get to see them on this glorious day.  No, the Secret Service wanted me to go away.  Note the look of steely contempt in the SS man's eyes.  Also note the welcoming smile of the grandmotherly Nixon Volunteer inside the door.  Finally, note the porcine pink-shirted Orange County Nixon fan at left- they let him in.