Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pat Ryan was born in 1912 in the small town of Ely, Nev. to an Irish copper miner and his German wife. Before she was two, her father moved the family to Artesia, Calif., where he bought a ten-acre truck farm. Pat's mother died when she was 13, leaving her to do all the housework and some of the fieldwork. Eleanor Stegeberg was born in 1921 on a South Dakota farm at the outset of the great farm depression. Her mother died when she and her twin sister Ila were eleven. There was never much money...
Curlers. The reality is largely that the "old" Pat has simply grown less selfconscious. Says Mrs. Jack Drown, one of her few close friends from a vast universe of acquaintances: "The confidence that radiates from Pat now is normal for any person who has been in a job for a while. It's like the third baby compared with the first." In Russia, Pat displayed what was for her an almost Eloise streak. Wanting to witness the signing of the SALT agreement, yet not formally invited to take part in the ceremony, she hid from the press while watching...
Certainly the wife of Nixon's vice-presidential years has been left far behind. That was the Pat who attracted such honors as Outstanding Homemaker ('53), Mother of the Year ('55) and Nation's Ideal Housewife ('57) by forever curling her own hair and pressing her husband's suits. The curlers and the traveling iron have now been packed away, as have many of the plain Republican cloth coats that Nixon made so much of in his famous 1952 Checkers speech. With the spotlight constantly trained on her, the First Lady has succumbed...
...doubtful that she could ever attain the instant star quality and studied grace of Jackie, or the sensitivity and charm of Lady Bird, but Pat has far outdistanced her own exemplar, Mamie Eisenhower, as White House hostess. More people, 124,805, have passed through the White House during her residence than ever before. Pat also has quietly been carrying on Jackie's restoration, redecorating the Blue, Green and Red rooms and acquiring museum-quality paintings and furnishings...
...Pat complained once, with perhaps a trace of bitterness, that she has always been too busy working to "just sit back" and think of herself or her "ideas," but she does seem to have her own vision of America. Reports TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "Her view of life is that of Pollyanna going steady with Horatio Alger. With hard work and the old dependable virtues, there is nowhere you can't go. That's the way it was for her and Dick, and the America she sees agrees with...