【尼克鬆圖書博物館裏的世界10領袖】

Portrait sculptures of Richard Nixon and Zhou Enlai  for a traveling exhibit;


尼克鬆 尊敬 周恩來，把他與周毛打開的中美和世界新格局視為他一生最重要的傑作

這個本來用於巡回展出的 尼-周 雕塑是最先製作的
隨後才有了 世界10領袖的群雕， 均是真人尺寸 青銅雕塑，栩栩如生。
 

ten portrait sculptures of world leaders who influenced President Nixon's life.

這10位領袖是 尼克鬆本人挑選和決定的，
因為他認為他們與自己進行了交往，對美國和世界產生了重大影響




尼克鬆圖書館的世界領袖廳裏，共陳列著10位20世紀風雲人物的塑像，其中包括
英國的丘吉爾、法國的戴高樂、蘇聯的勃烈日涅夫和赫魯曉夫，
德國的阿登納、以色列的梅厄夫人、埃及的薩達特和日本的吉田茂。
其他人均為站像，唯有毛澤東和周恩來是坐姿，放在前麵最突出的位置。
由此看出中國在他心目中的位置，以及他如何尊崇毛澤東和周恩來。 


有人詢問過尼克鬆為何希望自己的博物館中出現毛的銅像，
得到的回答是：
尼克鬆本人希望毛的銅像放在他的圖書館裏 而且顯要位置，
所以是老尼本人的決定，不是後人強加給他的
是因為想要在館中擺放
“在他政治生涯當中所有打過交道的、可敬畏的國際人士”。

 

They are among 10 statues of former heads of state and government on display
in the library's World Leaders exhibit.
For nearly 20 years the likenesses of China's communist leaders
Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai have sat perfectly still in
the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda， Ca.

Others include
Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev,
Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Golda Meir, and
France's Charles de Gaulle and Britain's Winston Churchill.

Nixon chose them before his $21-million privately funded library opened in 1990.



開館儀式上 主人 尼克鬆和 另3位先後 美國總統


這組雕塑的設計和雕塑 由 愛思作坊製作
StudioEIS (pronounced "Studio Ice")
is a sculpture and design studio in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
It specializes in "visual storytelling" — the production of figurative sculpture in bronze, stone,
and resin for narrative exhibitions at cultural institutions, museums, and corporations worldwide.

 

A quote from Nixon on a wall explains his selections:
"They are leaders who have made a difference.
Not because they wished it, but because they willed it."

館內牆上尼克鬆的這句話 寓意雋永：

他們是有所作為的領袖，非因其僅所欲  而工其 誌必得。

我喜歡老尼這句話。




The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library 
and final resting place of Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States.
Located in Yorba Linda, California, the library is one of 13 administered
by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

From its original dedication in 1990 until becoming a federal facility on July 11, 2007,
the library and museum was operated by the private Richard Nixon Foundation and was
known as the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace.
The 9-acre (3.6 ha) campus is located at 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard in Yorba Linda
and incorporates the Richard Nixon Birthplace, a National Historic Landmark where
Nixon was born in 1913 and spent his childhood.
The facility is now jointly operated by NARA and the Richard Nixon Foundation.

尼克鬆總統圖書博物館
1990年7月19日開館時 為私有私管， 2007年改由與聯邦政府共有共管。

Funding to build the Nixon Library came from private sources.
The estimated cost to build the institution was $25 million.^[2] 
Ground was broken by Julie Nixon Eisenhower,
daughter of President and Mrs. Nixon, in December 1988.^[2]

The original library and birthplace was officially dedicated on July 19, 1990.
Former President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon were present,
as were President George H. W. Bush, former President Gerald Ford, f
ormer President Ronald Reagan, and first ladiesBarbara Bush, Betty Ford, and Nancy Reagan.
A crowd of 50,000 gathered for the ceremony.^[3] At the dedication, Nixon said,
"Nothing we have ever seen matches this moment–to be welcomed home again."^[3]

尼克鬆誕生地 和 家















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