Showing posts with label Walt Disney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walt Disney. Show all posts

Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Happiest Place In Simi Valley

Former Nixon library director Tim Naftali has put his seal of approval on a new exhibit about Walt Disney:
[T]here seems little doubt that the library exhibit will draw a new audience — always a priority for presidential museums, which live daily with the encroachment of time and the danger of irrelevancy. “These presidential museums belong to everybody and should have a wide appeal,” said...Naftali... “It shouldn’t just be for the presidential historians."
Richard Nixon knew the legendary Disney founder well, having helped open Disneyland along with his family. Of course the new exhibit's at the Reagan library, where it's nearly doubled attendance.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Art Training

With an item about Diane Disney Miller's new Walt Disney Family Museum, the New York Times presents this 1959 photo of the Nixon family with Walt and, in the bubble top of the Disneyland monorail, Art Linkletter.