{"id":224028,"date":"2026-03-17T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224028\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:14:12","slug":"first-lady-pat-nixon-honored-on-114th-birthday-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224028\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady Pat Nixon honored on 114th birthday \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Members of the Yorba Linda Girl Scout honor guard, Dylan...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OCR-L-A2-PAT-NIXON-JG-01-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Yorba Linda Girl Scout honor guard, Dylan Welch, left, Ava Duff, Mia Myerscough, Guilana Welch, behind, and Penny Drasdo, right, lay a wreath at the grave of Pat Nixon for the First Lady\u2019s birthday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, March 16, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ava Duff, a member of the Yorba Linda Girl Scout...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OCR-L-A2-PAT-NIXON-JG-02_7d8512.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OCR-L-A2-PAT-NIXON-JG-02_7d8512.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ava Duff, a member of the Yorba Linda Girl Scout honor guard, delivers the Pledge of Allegiance during a wreath laying ceremony at the grave of Pat Nixon for the First Lady\u2019s birthday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, March 16, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Lopez, Acting President &amp; CEO of the Richard Nixon...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OCR-L-A2-PAT-NIXON-JG-03.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OCR-L-A2-PAT-NIXON-JG-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Lopez, Acting President &amp; CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, during a wreath laying ceremony at the grave of Pat Nixon for the First Lady\u2019s birthday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, March 16, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mike Shanahan holds on to two flags during a wreath...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OCR-L-A2-PAT-NIXON-JG-04.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OCR-L-A2-PAT-NIXON-JG-04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Shanahan holds on to two flags during a wreath laying ceremony at the grave of Pat Nixon for the First Lady\u2019s birthday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, March 16, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Lopez, Acting President &amp; CEO of the Richard Nixon...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OCR-L-A2-PAT-NIXON-JG-05.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OCR-L-A2-PAT-NIXON-JG-05.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Lopez, Acting President &amp; CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, during a wreath laying ceremony at the grave of Pat Nixon for the First Lady\u2019s birthday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, March 16, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 5<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Yorba Linda Girl Scout honor guard, Dylan Welch, left, Ava Duff, Mia Myerscough, Guilana Welch, behind, and Penny Drasdo, right, lay a wreath at the grave of Pat Nixon for the First Lady\u2019s birthday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, March 16, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born in the same year, 1912, the Girl Scouts and Pat Nixon were linked from the time she was a troop leader for her daughters to when she was first lady and became honorary national president of the Girl Scouts.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, members of the Yorba Linda Girl Scout honor guard helped pay tribute at the Nixon Presidential Library &amp; Museum to Nixon on what would have been her 114th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Girl Scout Ava Duff gave a speech and led the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by other speakers and a wreath-laying ceremony at the first lady\u2019s grave site in Yorba Linda.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential library also held its annual day of service in the first lady\u2019s honor, with a community service fair focusing on causes championed by Pat Nixon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Yorba Linda Girl Scout honor guard, Dylan Welch, left, Ava Duff, Mia Myerscough, Guilana Welch,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,23,11975,611,2944,7537],"class_list":["post-224028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-local-news","tag-nixon-library","tag-orange-county","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-yorba-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}