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Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon (née Ryan; March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of President Richard Nixon. She also served as the second lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 when her husband was vice president.
Jul 24, 2024 · Pat Nixon (born March 16, 1912, Ely, Nevada, U.S.—died June 22, 1993, Park Ridge, New Jersey) was an American first lady (1969–74), the wife of Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States, who espoused the cause of volunteerism during her husband’s term.
At home, First Lady Pat Nixon reached out to the American people by inviting them into the people’s house and taking special care to preserve and enhance it. “The Nixon era was the greatest single period of collecting in White House history,” historian William Seale said.
Jun 22, 1993 · Pat Nixon, the uncomplaining silent partner in Richard Nixon's lifetime of political triumph and disgrace, died of lung cancer Tuesday at the couple's home in Park Ridge, N.J. She was 81. Mrs. Nixon had suffered from lung disease for years and was hospitalized in February for emphysema.
Apr 23, 2020 · On January 20, 1969, as her husband, Richard Nixon, took the oath of office as President of the United States, Pat Nixon held the Nixon and Milhous family bibles. When Pat Nixon became First Lady, the war in Vietnam was raging.
One of the most admired women in Cold War America, Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Nixon was the wife of US President Richard Nixon, and First Lady of the United States between 1969 and 1974. Although her time in the White House has been overshadowed by her husband’s tumultuous administration, Pat Nixon was a First Lady of several historic ...
3 days ago · Lee also argues, less convincingly, that Pat Nixon was an unsung hero of the women’s rights movement. A proponent of the right to choose before Roe v. Wade, she persuaded her husband to include ...
Nov 9, 2009 · Thelma “Pat” Nixon (1912-93) was an American first lady (1969-74) and the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States. As first lady, Pat Nixon encouraged Americans to ...
5 days ago · Historian and biographer Heath Hardage Lee launched The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady, the first commercial work on First Lady Pat Nixon published in nearly forty years, at the Nixon Library on August 6. In this new biography, Lee uses extensive archival research and firsthand interviews to deconstruct the media’s image of First Lady Pat ...
As the wife of the President Richard Nixon, Thelma Catherine “Pat” Ryan Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974. She was an avid supporter of charitable causes and ...
