YORBA LINDA (CNS) – Admission at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda will be half-price Monday for Presidents Day while the Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine will mark the day with two readings of “Duck for President.”
Visitors to the Nixon library will be able to interact with actors portraying George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant who will also participate in a panel discussion at 11 a.m. in the replica of the White House East Room.
The first 500 visitors will receive a free cherry pie shooter.
The library will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The library’s usual prices are $29 for adults, $25 for seniors age 62 and older, $23 for retired military members, college and high school students and children ages 12 to 17 and $19 for children ages 5 to 11. Admission is free for active duty military with identification and children 4 and under.
More information is available by calling the library at 714-993-5075.
The Pretend City Children’s Museum is customarily closed on Mondays but will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Presidents Day. “Duck for President” will be read at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. during the museum’s story time.
The book is the described by Amazon as the story of “a duck who began in a humble pond. Who worked his way to farmer. To governor. And now, perhaps, to the highest office in the land.”
More information is available at 949-428-3900.
Although commonly known as Presidents Day, the Monday federal holiday is still legally Washington’s Birthday. The holiday was shifted from Feb. 22 to the third Monday in February 1971 under the terms of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968. Because the holiday falls between Feb. 15 and Feb. 21, it can never fall on the actual anniversary of Washington’s birth in 1732.
The term Presidents Day began being popularized in the 1980s, when retailers combined sales formerly held in conjunction with Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays.
Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday has never been a federal holiday but is a holiday in California.
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