{"id":20764,"date":"2019-12-20T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20764"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:23:15","slug":"celebrating-president-nixons-birthday-premiere-of-the-new-east-room-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20764","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating President Nixon&#8217;s Birthday  Premiere of the New East Room West"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"m_5894456036737269908mcnTextContentContainer\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"m_5894456036737269908mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Thursday, January 9, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Free Library Admission \u2014 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM<\/strong><br \/>\nThanks to the generosity of Charlie and Ling Zhang, the Nixon Library\u2019s iconic East Room has been completely renovated to enable top performance-quality shows, presentations and musical numbers.\u00a0The premiere performance in the new<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>East Room West<\/strong>\u00a0will feature keynote remarks by the most recent White House Curator\u00a0<strong>William G. Allman\u00a0<\/strong>on the history of the East Room and musical performances in the Executive Mansion<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>Following the remarks, there will be a\u00a0performance by\u00a0<strong>Orange County Music and Dance<\/strong>.The concert is free to attend but advance RSVP is required.That morning, there will be an 11 AM formal wreath laying ceremony at the Memorial Site of President and Mrs. Nixon, with a wreath sent by President Donald Trump to honor President Nixon on the anniversary of his birth. It will include remarks from\u00a0Rear Admiral\u00a0<strong>Robert C. Nowakowski<\/strong>, patriotic musical performances by Navy Band Southwest,\u00a0 and\u00a0a\u00a0formal presentation of the colors by the Troy High School Navy JROTC Honor Guard.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 class=\"text-body-large hide-small\">About this Event<\/h2>\n<div class=\"has-user-generated-content\" data-automation=\"about-this-event-sc\">\n<div class=\"structured-content-rich-text structured-content__module l-align-left l-mar-vert-6 l-sm-mar-vert-4 text-body-medium\">\n<h3>Celebrating President Nixon\u2019s Birthday: Premiere of the New East Room West<\/h3>\n<p>Thursday, January 9, 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free Library Admission &#8211; 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00 AM: Presidential Wreath-Laying Ceremony<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laying of a wreath to honor the Memory of President Nixon sent from President Donald J. Trump<\/li>\n<li>Keynote remarks by Rear Admiral Robert C. Nowakowski<\/li>\n<li>Patriotic musical performances by Navy Band Southwest<\/li>\n<li>Formal 21-Gun Salute<\/li>\n<li>Formal Presentation of the Colors by the Troy High School Navy JROTC Honor Guard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6:00 PM: Premiere Performance in the all-new White House East Room<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the generosity of<strong>\u00a0Charlie and Ling Zhang<\/strong>, the Nixon Library\u2019s iconic East Room has been completely renovated to enable top performance-quality shows, presentations and musical numbers. The New East Room West now boasts first-class audiovisual capabilities, a performance-worthy lighting system, new staging capabilities and custom-made presidential podium, restored wooden floors, shined draperies and new portraits replicating those in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The premiere performance in the New East Room West will feature keynote remarks on the history of the White House by the most recent White House Curator William G. Allman, who served the families of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Following the remarks, there will be a spectacular performance by Orange County Music and Dance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><a class=\"m_5894456036737269908mcnButton\" title=\"Register Now\" href=\"https:\/\/nixonfoundation.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1b467fe3b2c9cbc8c7ded8810&amp;id=de2d0da642&amp;e=f41284f4ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nixonfoundation.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D1b467fe3b2c9cbc8c7ded8810%26id%3Dde2d0da642%26e%3Df41284f4ba&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1577044011492000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGcSEWwg8KxB-Iig-Gj8pIrYRc2lg\">Register Now<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 9, 2020 Free Library&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20937,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20764\/revisions\/20937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}