Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closer. Did it bother Mrs. Nixon that Martha Mitchell had said she was manhandled by a security agent now with the committee to re-elect her husband? "I don't know anything about what happened in her [Mrs. Mitchell's] room," she replied. Finally, someone asked what Pat thought of her daughter Julie's comment that she would willingly die for the South Vietnamese government. Again, Pat said she was not familiar with Julie's comment but that, yes, "I would be willing to die" to save the freedom of 17 million South Vietnamese...
Whatever trouble she has with issues, Pat is proving that she can cope with any physical hardship. As she says of herself, "I do or die. I never cancel out." Certainly she has had plenty of excuses. In Yellowstone National Park she sat through a seemingly interminable speech by Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, her hands gloveless and numb as sleet pelted the frozen, huddled crowd. In Billings, Mont., a 40-m.p.h. wind ripped down the WELCOME PAT banner at the airport, left the assembled Crow Indians shivering in their buckskins, and carried away Pat's words...
There was no rain or wind in Riverside, Calif., but it might have been better had there been. Pat had to stand beneath the sun in 102° F. heat to dedicate a new wing of a senior citizens' community center in honor of her late mother-in-law, Mrs. Hannah Milhous Nixon...
Stoicism has always been part of Pat Nixon's stock in trade, and the inclement weather simply played directly to her strength. Time and again, spectators came away wondering at her true grit. Commented one journalist after her Yellowstone performance: "If every park ranger doesn't snowshoe to the polls to vote for Richard Nixon in November, they've got no sense of gratitude...
...aplomb and success of Pat and Eleanor on the hustings is hardly unexpected. For Pat, this is the ninth campaign and 26th year of politics, including those years when Nixon was politicking out of his law office instead of a public office. She has had eight years as second lady and four as First Lady in which to burnish her image to a high gloss. For Eleanor, this is the seventh campaign and 16th year in the field. For whatever advantage Pat has in experience, Eleanor can claim compensating interest. Of the two, Eleanor was far more exposed to politics...