Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hard to believe, but that love-struck suitor was Richard Nixon...
...future President's courtship of his wife Patricia is detailed in Julie Nixon Eisenhower's sympathetic account of the trials and triumphs of the family Nixon as seen through her mother's eyes. Pat Nixon: The Untold Story, to be published in November by Simon & Schuster, portrays the former First Lady as an intensely private woman from whom the entire family, particularly her husband, drew strength...
Julie sets the stage for her book with a description of her mother as a wistful young woman from Artesia, Calif., whose childhood was painful. She put herself through college and became a schoolteacher in Whittier, Calif., where she caught the eye of young Nixon. After a long courtship, she decided to accept the diamond engagement ring he sent to her classroom in a May basket. And she has stuck by him ever since...
...details Julie provides of the Watergate years are what make the book particularly touching. Drawing from her own diaries as well as those of her father and her sister Tricia, she recounts the painful months leading up to Nixon's resignation in 1974, the helplessness the family felt as events unfolded, and the loneliness of their subsequent exile in San Clemente...
...Nixon thought her husband should burn the Watergate tapes, Julie reports. Her mother was so upset by the scandalous disclosures that she stopped reading the newspapers, and she believed to the end that Nixon had done nothing to require a pardon. For her the pardon was "the saddest day of my life...