Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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January 18: President Mary Bunting of Radcliffe appoints Thelma Ryan "Pat" Nixon Head Resident of Moors Hall...
Nixon voted early (at 7:35 a.m. in a green stucco ranch house) so that East Coast afternoon papers would have photographs in time, saw to it that he and Pat emerged from the booths at the same time, smiled at each other for photographers as they handed in their ballots. As his motorcade headed back toward Los Angeles, Nixon eluded reporters by switching en route from his Cadillac to a white convertible, sped off on a mystery trip that took him some 150 miles through sunny Southern California. His destination on the most crucial day of his career: Tijuana...
...fatalism-or resignation-Nixon flew home to California on election eve to await the people's judgment, bone-tired after a grueling campaign that had taken him 65,000 miles and into all 50 states. After a midnight rally and parade in Los Angeles, Nixon and wife Pat turned in at the Royal Suite of the Ambassador Hotel, rose after only two hours' sleep for an 18-mile drive to home-town Whittier -and the day of reckoning...
Michigan. Massachusetts-born Patrick V. ("Senator Pat") McNamara, 66, is a labor man all the way: as onetime president of the Detroit Pipefitters Union, Democrat McNamara commands the loyalty of old line A.F.L. leaders and his ultra-liberal voting record in the Senate since 1955 has won him the plaudits of Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. Operated on for cancer last July, he remains a back-thumping extravert, admired for his "heart" rather than his dreary speeches...
...Herb Kaplow in the Vice President's path ten minutes too early, and Kaplow stood there ad-libbing about everything from Nixon's preconvention campaign to the January inaugural. When the Nixons finally appeared, both networks closed in on a TV sight not soon to be forgotten-Pat Nixon, her face a portrait of distress almost under control, struggling hopelessly to do the smiling job her husband was accomplishing with ease, showing a trace of terror when the unsolemn crowd interrupted Nixon to shout: "We want Pat...