YORBA LINDA (CNS) – Admission at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda will be half-price Monday for Presidents Day
Re-enactors portraying George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James Madison and other presidents will share stories from their administrations, answer questions and engage with guests throughout the day. They will also participate in a panel discussion at 11 a.m. in the replica of the White House East Room.
The first 400 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 students with identification and youth 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 or online at nixonfoundation.org.
Although commonly known as Presidents Day, Monday’s federal holiday is still legally Washington’s Birthday, although some federal agencies and state and local governments refer to it as Presidents Day.
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 of Feb. 22, 1732.
The term Presidents Day became 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.