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Visitors to the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum look at love letters exchanged between Richard and Pat Nixon during their two-year courtship.

Exhibit celebrates the life of Pat Nixon: One of the most-traveled first ladies

Last updated Sunday, April 15, 2012 - 7:13am

YORBA LINDA, Calif. -- As the wife of an ambitious politician, Pat Nixon had her hands full. Besides keeping up with Richard Nixon's various political incarnations, she had a household to run and two daughters to raise.

But as a new exhibit on the centennial of her birth -- on display at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda -- makes clear, she had another passion in her life: The desire to see new places and meet people tugged at her as forcefully as her husband's dreams of winning the presidency.

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David Dubell prepares for battle during the Civil War in the Southwest reenactments at Picacho Peak State Park in Arizona.

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When the Civil War came West

Catharine Hamm, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 2:06am

PICACHO PEAK STATE PARK, Ariz. -- Things hadn't gone according to plan -- do they ever in war? -- and now, Lt. James Barrett was going to make them right. The cavalry officer and his dozen or so men would rescue his colleague, Capt. William McCleave, from those nettlesome rebels hiding near Picacho Peak, and McCleave would be returned to his rightful place with the California Volunteers and regulars.

The honor of California, a state that contributed more than 15,000 troops to the Union war effort, was at stake.

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