Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairly impressive display of her stubborn cool, Tricia decided that her wedding to Edward Finch Cox would go just as she had planned it. Attendants with white towels mopped the rain water from the gazebo just outside the Oval Office and peeled the protective plastic sheeting from the white carpet spread down the aisle between the gilt guest chairs arranged in the Rose Garden. At 4:30 p.m., after a half-hour delay, the rain stopped, and perhaps the loveliest of all the 16 weddings held at the White House began...
...Image. On her father's arm, Tricia followed her attendants-including Matron of Honor Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Ed Cox's sister Mary Ann, the maid of honor-down the steps from the Blue Room balcony and into the garden, where the President gave his daughter away before the small wrought-iron gazebo painted white. Her gown, by Priscilla of Boston, was an elegant white silk organdy. The all-lace bodice was molded to show her tiny waist and scalloped at the wide V neckline. Altogether, the gown was striking and sophisticated, a departure from the little-girl...
...Congressmen. The guests retreated rapidly to the embowered state rooms of the White House for New York and California champagnes and dancing to the music of Bill Harrington and his orchestra. The relatively small assembly consisted of the oldest of the Cox and Nixon family friends, along with the members of the Cabinet and the White House staff. No Congressmen were invited, despite the years that Richard Nixon served there. Instead, there was the Rev. Billy Graham, Comedian Red Skelton, Mr. and Mrs. Art Linkletter and Eversharp Inc.'s chairman of the board, Patrick Frawley Jr. Mamie Eisenhower presided...
...danced with Tricia to Thank Heaven for Little Girls. Later he danced with Julie Eisenhower and with Pat, who in a rare moment of public affection kissed him warmly on the cheek. He also danced with Lynda Robb until her husband cut in. When Eddie's father, Howard Cox, drew Mamie Eisenhower onto the floor for a dance, a cheer erupted from the crowd, as it had for the President's first step. Then Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cox, still dressed in their full wedding costumes, left in a limousine from the North Portico for their honeymoon...
Married. Tricia Nixon, 25, daughter of the President; and Edward Finch Cox, 24 (see THE NATION...