YORBA LINDA (CNS) - The official 2022 White House Christmas Ornament will be unveiled Monday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda in connection with Presidents Day.
The White House Historical Association and the Richard Nixon Foundation will unveil the ornament during a special event in the library's replica of the White House East Room at 11 a.m.
This will be the first time an official White House Christmas Ornament has been unveiled on the West Coast and begins a yearlong partnership illuminating the Nixons' White House legacy through educational programming and onsite events.
The library will also mark Presidents Day by having actors portraying Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and George Washington be available for pictures throughout the day.
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The first 500 visitors will receive a free slice of cherry pie.
The library will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission will be half-price. The library's usual prices are $23 for adults, $19 for seniors age 62 and older, $17 for retired military members and children ages 12 to 17 and $13 for children ages 5 to 11. Admission is free for active duty military and children 4 and under.
More information is available by calling the library at 714-993-5075.
Although commonly known as Presidents Day, the Monday 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 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.
Lincoln's birthday is a holiday in California and eight other states.