Orange County business, political and community leaders gathered at La Casa Pacifica, once known as The Western White House, in San Clemente to celebrate 100 years of the seaside home as a stage on which countless decisions, events and moments of consequence have unfolded.
Ninetta and Gavin Herbert, Sr. —who have owned and cared for the historic home and grounds for 46 years— hosted 130 guests on July 11, 2026 for an evening celebrating the home’s historical significance and stressing the need for its long-term preservation. The Richard Nixon Foundation co-presented the evening’s event.
Gavin Herbert said: “We’re here to reflect on the extraordinary history of this property —the key events, decisions, and conversations that have taken place here over the last 100 years— and to ensure that this historic site remains protected from development for generations to come.”
Herbert also said: “Our goal is clear: it is to preserve the integrity, character and legacy of this extraordinary site.”
The evening’s Guests of Honor were Governor and Mrs. Pete Wilson. Wilson served as Governor of California from 1991 to 1999 and served two terms in the United States Senate representing California from 1983 to 1991.
Melanie Eisenhower, the granddaughter of President and Mrs. Nixon and great-granddaughter of President and Mrs. Eisenhower, delivered remarks.
Eisenhower said: “I feel with special and perhaps unique intensity, the importance of protecting and preserving our history and our heritage. It’s especially important to have places like Casa Pacifica —real, tangible, oases of history— standing amidst today’s fast-paced, highly disposable, live-for-today, obsessed-about-tomorrow, forget-about-yesterday culture.”
Keynote remarks were delivered by Hugh Hewitt, Fox News Contributor, nationally-syndicated radio host and two-time President and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation. Hewitt worked at La Casa Pacifica with President Nixon from 1978 to 1980.
Hewitt said: “The original plan was for this to be [the site of] the Nixon Library, but of course the abrupt end of the administration left us without a plan… I’m just so grateful to Gavin and Ninetta and to the Herbert fami
![Orange County business, political and community leaders gathered at La Casa Pacifica, once known as The Western White House, in San Clemente to celebrate 100 years of the seaside home as a stage on which countless decisions, events and moments of consequence have unfolded.
Ninetta and Gavin Herbert, Sr. —who have owned and cared for the historic home and grounds for 46 years— hosted 130 guests on July 11, 2026 for an evening celebrating the home’s historical significance and stressing the need for its long-term preservation. The Richard Nixon Foundation co-presented the evening’s event.
Gavin Herbert said: “We’re here to reflect on the extraordinary history of this property —the key events, decisions, and conversations that have taken place here over the last 100 years— and to ensure that this historic site remains protected from development for generations to come.”
Herbert also said: “Our goal is clear: it is to preserve the integrity, character and legacy of this extraordinary site.”
The evening’s Guests of Honor were Governor and Mrs. Pete Wilson. Wilson served as Governor of California from 1991 to 1999 and served two terms in the United States Senate representing California from 1983 to 1991.
Melanie Eisenhower, the granddaughter of President and Mrs. Nixon and great-granddaughter of President and Mrs. Eisenhower, delivered remarks.
Eisenhower said: “I feel with special and perhaps unique intensity, the importance of protecting and preserving our history and our heritage. It’s especially important to have places like Casa Pacifica —real, tangible, oases of history— standing amidst today’s fast-paced, highly disposable, live-for-today, obsessed-about-tomorrow, forget-about-yesterday culture.”
Keynote remarks were delivered by Hugh Hewitt, Fox News Contributor, nationally-syndicated radio host and two-time President and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation. Hewitt worked at La Casa Pacifica with President Nixon from 1978 to 1980.
Hewitt said: “The original plan was for this to be [the site of] the Nixon Library, but of course the abrupt end of the administration left us without a plan… I’m just so grateful to Gavin and Ninetta and to the Herbert fami](https://www.nixonfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
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On June 29th, we announced and revealed plans to build a new educational center and kicked off those plans with a grand sendoff for the Presidential Helicopter as it temporarily departs the campus for a complete restoration at @marchfieldairmuseum in Riverside, California.
The completely-restored helicopter will return in 2028 as a centerpiece of this new building. The six-ton Sikorsky VH-3A “Sea King” served from 1961 to 1976 as a flying Oval Office for Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.
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86 years ago today, Richard and Pat Nixon married at Mission Inn in Riverside, California.
“Most of all dear one I am thankful that you still love me and that we have so much to look forward to-together. That we ever met at all was the first break for me-after that | loved you so much that we just had to belong to each other. There can never be another like you.”
- Richard Nixon in a letter to Pat Nixon written in 1943.
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