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The above source is a Wikipedia spin-off site that contains user-editable content, but the material I cited was written by an employee of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum.

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Gift Shop

It wouldn’t be a museum without a gift shop!

Our cookbook, I’m Not a Cook: $29.99
Replica of the Watergate walkie-talkie: $18.50 (NOTE: Only one walkie-talkie is included with each purchase — you’ll have to find the other one yourself!)
A comprehensive list of reasons why Richard Nixon is not a crook: $4.43 (This one hasn’t been selling too well ever since Amazon started selling the same product but under a different name and cheaper.)
“My friend was in a third-rate burglary attempt and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!”: $19.72

And before you go: For all the things I’ve said here about Richard Nixon, the off-the-cuff farewell address he gave to White House staff on the morning of August 9, 1974 (hours before he resigned from office) is genuinely a great speech. You can read it here. I’ll even give Nixon the final word:

“Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember other may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”