# Nixon's San Clemente home on the market for $75 million **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixons-san-clemente-home-on-the-market-for-75-million/716983 "2015-04-06T19:40:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixons-san-clemente-home-on-the-market-for-75-million/716983/1 "2015-04-06T19:40:12Z")
Dang! Who knew? I have no idea he managed to accumulate enough dough to afford this place, and it’s undoubtedly better decorated now than it was when he had it, but I’d have felt a lot less sorry for Nixon as he helicoptered off into obscurity if I’d known his retirement was to be spent here. Absolutely gorgeous! [Link to 50 image slide show](https://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/nixon-s-western-white-house--and-post-watergate-refuge--hits-market-at--75-million-191502161.html) ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixons-san-clemente-home-on-the-market-for-75-million/716983/2 "2015-04-06T20:28:19Z")
Based on the notes, it looks like they paid between $360k and $1.4 million for it in 1969. Even accounting for inflation, it seems to have appreciated quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixons-san-clemente-home-on-the-market-for-75-million/716983/3 "2015-04-06T21:03:47Z")
I was all ready to be sniffy about it but…it fits the surroundings wonderfully and is about as low-key and tasteful as $75 million can buy. It is a beautiful house and the original designers did a great job. The cyprus trees particularly are a great choice. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixons-san-clemente-home-on-the-market-for-75-million/716983/4 "2015-04-06T21:32:40Z")
How much of that price is due to the celebrity factor? And what will it _really_ sell for? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixons-san-clemente-home-on-the-market-for-75-million/716983/5 "2015-04-06T23:00:56Z")
(Jokes about bugs and plumbers, not worth the effort) My tastes are more modest and cosmopolitan: for 8.5 million, the house in LA built by Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman [nineteen rooms: seven of them bathrooms](http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9137-Cordell-Dr-Los-Angeles-CA-90069/20799268_zpid/). make of that what you will. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixons-san-clemente-home-on-the-market-for-75-million/716983/6 "2015-04-07T19:23:17Z")
Note that a _lot_ of upgrades were made to the place at tax-payer expense. Nixon said that he was going to donate it to the government to make up for that. That didn’t happen. Nixon lied? I am shocked. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixons-san-clemente-home-on-the-market-for-75-million/716983/7 "2015-04-07T21:27:26Z")
Pleasant looking place, hardly $75M worth. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixons-san-clemente-home-on-the-market-for-75-million/716983/8 "2015-04-08T00:22:08Z")
If I had the money ----------- like a shot. Nixon is still one of those odd love/hate figures of my younger days but such a memory that I would just HAVE to own it.