An 'Illuminatus!' reference in 'Vineland'?

Richard Nixon (public domain photo). 

From Illuminatus!:

The real bread was in the Colossus of Yorba Linda Foundation, which had been successfully raising money for several years to erect a heroic monument, in solid gold and ten feet taller than the statue of Liberty, honoring the martyred former president Richard Milhous Nixon. This monument, paid for entirely by the twenty million Americans who still loved and revered Nixon despite the damnable lies of the Congress, the Justice Department, the press, the TV, the law courts,met al., would stand outside Yorba Linda, Tricky Dicky's boyhood home, and scowl menacinglymtoward Asia, warning those gooks not to try to get the jump on Uncle Sammie. (Page 120, The Golden Apple). 

From Vineland:

... the new Nixon Monument, a hundred-foot colossus in black and white marble at the edge of the cliff, gazing not out to sea, but inland, towering above the campus architecture ... (Page 205, Chapter 11).