This deeply admiring biography provides a behind-the-scenes look at what may be America’s most inscrutable first lady. In public, she could appear impassive; she was called “plastic.” What better ...
YORBA LINDA, Calif. - As the wife of an ambitious politician, Pat Nixon had her hands full. Besides keeping up with Richard Nixon's various political incarnations, she had a household to run and two ...
On January 20, Melania Trump and Usha Vance will assume the historic roles of first and second ladies of the United States, stepping into positions shaped by centuries of tradition and change. Each ...
With a statue of Pat Nixon, hands clasped behind her back, seemingly watching over the proceedings, a freeway sign that will mark a stretch of the 91 Freeway in her honor was unveiled Thursday, March ...
Thelma Ryan was only 13, a freshman at Excelsior Union High School in Artesia, Calif., when her mother Kate, a German immigrant and Christian Scientist from South Dakota, died from liver cancer at 45.
PARIS – After spending decades portraying generals' wives, a countess and a courtesan, Renée Fleming walked gingerly onto the stage of the Bastille Opera in a blond wig, red coat and black gloves to ...
In this dry and frustrating biography, Brennan, a historian at Texas State University (Turning Right in the Sixties), fails to deliver on her promise to "give Pat a voice." Pat Nixon (1912–1993) was ...
MRS. NIXON: A Novelist Imagines a Life, by Ann Beattie (Scribner) One of the most poignant parts of Ann Beattie s new work, Mrs. Nixon, is a page at the beginning listing the nicknames of Thelma ...
Singer Rene Fleming appears at the 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors gala in Washington on Dec. 5, 2021, left, and first lady Pat Nixon appears in Camp Springs, Md. after her trip to China with ...
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