Opinion: An unlikely place to view the inauguration: the Nixon Library
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Some people didn’t necessarily want to be around Democrats to watch the inauguration on TV. Take Candice Katayama, who talked to the Ticket’s sister blog, L.A. Now:
The lifelong Republican from the city of Orange, after all, cast her first Democratic vote in November for Obama. So she and her former boss went to an unlikely place, the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, joining about two dozen employees and schoolchildren who applauded as they sat in rows of chairs watching the ceremony on a large TV mounted outside an exhibit on inaugurations throughout history. ‘It’s a little weird,’ Katayama admits. ‘But I came to this evolution that this country isn’t about labels anymore. It’s about hope.’
-- Tony Barboza
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