Nixon was reluctant to work on divorce cases, disliking frank sexual talk from women. In 1938, he opened up his own branch of Wingert and Bewley in La Habra, California, and became a full partner in the firm the following year. In January 1938 Nixon was cast in the Whittier Community Players production of "The Dark Tower". There he played opposite a high school teacher named Thelma "Pat" Ryan. Nixon described it in his memoirs as "a case of love at first sight"—for Nixon only, as Pat Ryan turned down the young lawyer several times before agreeing to date him.
Early career and marriage
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon | Early career and marriage
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what is checkers speech?
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An address by Senator Richard Nixon.
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who is nixon?
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The 37th president of the United States.
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where was he born?
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Yorba Linda, California.
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what was the watergate scandal?
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It was an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration.
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describe his policies related to space?
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He disapproved plans for a permanent base on moon, Mars expedition, Manned Orbital Laboratory program for funds. But he approved a five -year cooperative program between NASA and Soviet space program.
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for what was he given a pardon?
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For the Watergate scandal.
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what kind of service did he give to the military?
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He was a lieutenant in the United States Navy.
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did he ever resign from the position of president?
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Yes, as he lost his political support and feared impeachment.
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how was his public image?
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Biographer Elizabeth Drew summarized Nixon as a "smart, talented man, but most peculiar and haunted of presidents".
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did he write any books?
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Yes, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon", and nine other books.
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what is the criticism faced by the aforementioned biographer?
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She has been criticised by the editors of "Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine"  as "Elizabeth Drone," author of a "Giant Postcard From Washington."
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name a few of her works?
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"Washington Journal: The Events of 1973-74" ,"Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign" ,, "On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency" , "Citizen McCain",  "George W. Bush's Washington" , "Richard M. Nixon"  and others.
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name of nixon's wife?
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Once they began their courtship, Ryan was reluctant to marry Nixon; they dated for two years before she assented to his proposal. They wed in a small ceremony on June 21, 1940. After a honeymoon in Mexico, the Nixons began their married life in Whittier. They had two daughters, Tricia (born 1946) and Julie (born 1948).
Richard Nixon | Early career and marriage
On December 20, 1941, Nixon married Katharine Page of Phoenix, Arizona. That marriage failed, as did the next. He married his third wife, Grace Umezawa, in 1956. She had been a student in California in the spring of 1942 when the President ordered the internment of Japanese Americans. Richard Winters served as the best man at the wedding. Nixon got his life back together and overcame his alcoholism during their marriage. They had no children.
Lewis Nixon III | Family
While in Whittier, Pat Ryan met Richard Nixon, a young lawyer who had recently graduated from the Duke University School of Law. The two became acquainted at a Little Theater group when they were cast together in "The Dark Tower". Known as Dick, he asked Pat to marry him the first night they went out. "I thought he was nuts or something!" she recalled. He courted the redhead he called his "wild Irish Gypsy" for two years, even driving her to and from her dates with other men. They eventually married on June 21, 1940, at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California.
Pat Nixon | Marriage and family, early campaigns
LeGrand was married to Alice Nixon. They were divorced in 1947.
Richard LeGrand | Personal life
Marion served as president of the organization. In 1948, the couple divorced. Marion then married Tom Call, the son of Asa Call, chairman of the Pacific Mutual Life Company and to whom the rapid ascent of Richard Nixon from representative to president is widely attributed. They divorced in 1952.
Marion Jorgensen | Early life and marriages
Nixon married Alease (who died in 1934), and they had a son, E. D. Nixon, Jr. (1928–2011). He became an actor known by the stage name of Nick La Tour. Nixon later married Arlette Nixon, who was with him during many of the civil rights events.
E. D. Nixon | Marriage and family
Nixon was married four times. She married boxer Joseph Benjamin in 1925, but they divorced two years later. Then, on August 11, 1929, Nixon married Chicago department store heir Edward Hillman Jr. at his parents' home. That union ended in 1933. The following year, Nixon wed director William A. Seiter with whom she had worked on the film "We're Rich Again". Their marriage lasted until Seiter's death in 1964 and produced three children: Christopher Seiter (1935-2003), Selena (1937-1980), and Jessica (1939- )). Finally, on April 1, 1972 in Los Angeles, she married actor/producer Ben Lyon, although her obituary in the "Chicago Tribune" reports that she married Lyon in 1971.
Marian Nixon | Personal life
Nixon married Gregory D. Smith, a direct descendant of Stephen A. Douglas, in 1995.
Mignon Nixon | Personal life
Her husband was a deeply controversial figure in American politics, and Pat had witnessed and shared the praise and vilification he had received without having established an independent public identity for herself. Although she supported him in his career, she feared another "1960", when Nixon lost to Kennedy. She consented, however, and participated in the campaign by traveling on campaign trips with her husband. Richard Nixon made a political comeback with his presidential victory of 1968 over Vice-President Hubert Humphrey—and the country had a new First Lady.
Pat Nixon | Her husband's campaigns—1960, 1962 and 1968
She was married three times: first to Webster L. Porter, an attorney and newspaper owner, in 1920; the couple divorced two years later after she gave birth to a daughter. She next married Ernest Ten Eyck Attwell; the couple, already separated, divorced in November 1935. She married Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon a few days later. Nixon enjoyed teaching music to children; her students included congresswoman Barbara Lee. She died in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 90.
Drusilla Nixon | Private life and death
Nixon married Betty C. Nixon, later a Nashville city councilor. They had two daughters, Mignon, and Anne, the former who is a professor at University College London (UCL) in London. The Nixons were divorced prior to Mrs. Nixon's death in 2016. Nixon died on December 19, 2019, in Los Angeles, California.
John Trice Nixon | Personal life
She said that she had been attracted to the young Nixon because he "was going places, he was vital and ambitious ... he was always doing things". Later, referring to Richard Nixon, she said, "Oh but you just don't realize how much fun he is! He's just so much fun!" Following a brief honeymoon in Mexico, the two lived in a small apartment in Whittier. As U.S. involvement in World War II began, the couple moved to Washington, D.C., with Richard taking a position as a lawyer for the Office of Price Administration (OPA); Pat worked as a secretary for the American Red Cross, but also qualified as a price analyst for the OPA.
Pat Nixon | Marriage and family, early campaigns
Of his critics, she said that "Lincoln had worse critics. He was big enough not to let it bother him. That's the way my husband is."
Pat Nixon | Marriage and family, early campaigns
Vilsack was born Ann Christine Bell in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where she was raised. Vilsack graduated from Kirkland College in Clinton, New York, in 1972. She met her future husband, Tom Vilsack, while attending college. He reportedly approached her in the cafeteria and asked, "Are you a Humphrey or a Nixon supporter?" The couple married on August 18, 1973, in Mount Pleasant. They have two children.
Christie Vilsack | Early life, marriage and family
In 1950, Nixon married the first of her three husbands, Ernest Gold, who composed the theme song to the movie "Exodus". They had three children, including singer and songwriter Andrew Gold. They divorced in 1969. She was married to Lajos "Fritz" Fenster from 1971 to 1975, and to woodwind player Albert Block from 1983 to his death in 2015. Nixon survived breast cancer in 1985 and 2000 but died from the disease on July 24, 2016, in New York, aged 86.
Marni Nixon | Personal life and death
Clinton, whose wife served on the staff of the committee that voted to impeach Nixon, met openly with him and regularly sought his advice.
Richard Nixon | Death and funeral
government. A November 1, 1958, article in "The Seattle Times" was typical of the media's favorable coverage of the future First Lady, stating that "Mrs. Nixon is always reported to be gracious and friendly. And she sure is friendly. She greets a stranger as a friend. She doesn't just shake hands but clasps a visitor's hand in both her hands. Her manner is direct ... Mrs. Nixon also upheld her reputation of always looking neat, no matter how long her day has been." A year and a half later, during her husband's campaign for the presidency, "The New York Times" called her "a paragon of wifely virtues" whose "efficiency makes other women feel slothful and untalented".
Pat Nixon | Wife of the vice president, 1953–1961
He then joined the United States Navy, and while he was stationed in San Francisco, she resumed work for the OPA as an economic analyst. Veteran UPI reporter Helen Thomas suggested that in public, the Nixons "moved through life ritualistically", but privately, however, they were "very close". In private, Richard Nixon was described as being "unabashedly sentimental", often praising Pat for her work, remembering anniversaries and surprising her with frequent gifts. During state dinners, he ordered the protocol changed so that Pat could be served first. Pat, in turn, felt that her husband was vulnerable and sought to protect him.
Pat Nixon | Marriage and family, early campaigns
She was married in 1936 to British Army officer Gordon Thomas Summersby; when they divorced, she retained the name of her ex-husband. There was an engagement to marry US Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Richard "Dick" Arnold that overlapped her initial period with Eisenhower; however, this ended with the death of her fiancé while mine clearing during the North Africa campaign.
Kay Summersby | Early life
She was married to Richard Serra from 1965 to 1970.
Nancy Graves | Early life and studies
This permanently dimmed Pat Nixon's view of politics. In 1962, the Nixons embarked on another campaign, this time for Governor of California. Prior to Richard Nixon's announcement of his candidacy, Pat's brother Tom Ryan said, "Pat told me that if Dick ran for governor she was going to take her shoe to him." She eventually agreed to another run, citing that it meant a great deal to her husband, but Richard Nixon lost the gubernatorial election to Pat Brown. Six years later, Richard Nixon ran again for the presidency. Pat was reluctant to face another campaign, her eighth since 1946.
Pat Nixon | Her husband's campaigns—1960, 1962 and 1968
Nixon was reluctant to work on divorce cases, disliking frank sexual talk from women. In 1938, he opened up his own branch of Wingert and Bewley in La Habra, California, and became a full partner in the firm the following year. In January 1938 Nixon was cast in the Whittier Community Players production of "The Dark Tower". There he played opposite a high school teacher named Thelma "Pat" Ryan. Nixon described it in his memoirs as "a case of love at first sight"—for Nixon only, as Pat Ryan turned down the young lawyer several times before agreeing to date him.
Richard Nixon | Early career and marriage
On June 25, 1908, he married Hannah Milhous. Together, they had five sons: Nixon died on September 4, 1956 in La Habra, California, U.S.
Francis A. Nixon | Personal life
He is twice married, with one child from his first marriage. His divorce was in 1996, the same year he left Enron, and he immediately married Nancy McNeil who was Ken Lay's assistant until Lay's death in 2006 and was a member of Rudy Giuliani's presidential committee from 2007-08. He lives in Houston, Texas.
Richard Kinder | Personal life
She was married to Francis A. Nixon and had five sons:
Hannah Milhous Nixon | Family
Midway through the latter period, he married his wife, Suzanne.
Richard W. Cottle | Early Life and Family
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Taylor held a position as a newspaper reporter. He later moved to California and worked for former President Richard Nixon in 1979. He became the former president's post-Chief of Staff in 1984, and served in that role until 1990. Taylor married Kathy O'Connor in 2002. O'Conner had served as Nixon's post-Chief of Staff from 1990 until the former president's death in 1994.
John H. Taylor (bishop) | Early life and career
Her husband took office in March 2003.
Jean Ramjohn-Richards | Introduction
Hudson's wife, Renee, is chief of staff for Kellyanne Conway.
Richard Hudson (American politician) | Personal life
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon (née Ryan; March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993), also commonly known as Patricia Nixon, was an American educator and the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States. During her more than 30 years in public life, she served as both the Second (1953–1961) and First Lady of the United States (1969–1974). Born in Ely, Nevada, she grew up with her two brothers in what is now Cerritos, California, graduating from high school in 1929. She attended Fullerton Junior College and later the University of Southern California. She paid for her schooling by working multiple jobs, including pharmacy manager, typist, radiographer, and retail clerk.
Pat Nixon | Introduction
His wife, Betsy Aaron, was CNN Moscow correspondent at the same time. He and his wife retired to Tucson, Arizona.
Richard Threlkeld | Personal life
In 1978, Jenrette was picked by the "Washington Post" Sunday magazine as one of four dynamic young women of Washington, D.C. On September 10, 1976, she married freshman Democratic whip John Jenrette of South Carolina, 18 months after meeting him on Capitol Hill.
Rita Jenrette | Early career
Eisenhower, and was later best man at Eisenhower's wedding to Julie Nixon, the daughter of then–president-elect Richard Nixon, in December 1968.
Fred Grandy | Early life
He is married to Janet Nixon and has three children.
Gordon Nixon | Personal life
But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman." She identified herself as bisexual in 2012. Prior to the legalization of same-sex marriage in Washington state (Marinoni's home), Nixon had taken a public stand supporting the issue, and hosted a fundraising event in support of Washington Referendum 74.
Cynthia Nixon | Personal life
A second son was born in March 1922 but died two months later. Doris and Stanhope were often apart, with Stanhope tending to the family business in New Jersey and Doris deeply involved in community activities in California. They were divorced in 1945.
Doris Ryer Nixon | Marriage and family
In 2011, Catsimatidis married Christopher Nixon Cox, Richard Nixon's grandson, at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, "before a church packed with family members and political powerhouses," including Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Rudolph Giuliani, Charles Schumer, Ray Kelly, and Robert M. Morgenthau. An elaborate black-tie wedding reception for 700 guests was held at the Waldorf-Astoria. Her father said that he spent "in excess of $1 million" on the wedding. Senator John McCain of Arizona was not invited, although Cox had worked on his 2008 presidential campaign, because McCain did not endorse Cox when Cox later ran (unsuccessfully) for Congress.
Andrea Catsimatidis | Personal
He married Diane Ravitch (née Silvers) in 1960; they have two sons, Joseph and Michael. They divorced in 1986. He later married Betsy F. Perry, in 1994. The marriage ended in divorce. On August 27, 2005, he married Kathleen M. Doyle, the Chairman and CEO of Doyle New York, an auction and appraisal company.
Richard Ravitch | Personal
In 1940, she married lawyer Richard Nixon and they had two daughters, Tricia and Julie. Dubbed the "Nixon team," Richard and Pat Nixon campaigned together in his successful congressional campaigns of 1946 and 1948. Richard Nixon was elected Vice President in 1952 alongside General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whereupon Pat became Second Lady. Pat Nixon did much to add substance to the role of the Vice President's wife, insisting on visiting schools, orphanages, hospitals, and village markets as she undertook many missions of goodwill across the world. As First Lady, Pat Nixon promoted a number of charitable causes, including volunteerism. She oversaw the collection of more than 600 pieces of historic art and furnishings for the White House, an acquisition larger than that of any other administration.
Pat Nixon | Introduction
When the deposed Shah of Iran died in Egypt in July 1980, Nixon defied the State Department, which intended to send no U.S. representative, by attending the funeral. Though Nixon had no official credentials, as a former president he was seen as the American presence at its former ally's funeral. Nixon supported Ronald Reagan for president in 1980, making television appearances portraying himself as, in biographer Stephen Ambrose's words, "the senior statesman above the fray". He wrote guest articles for many publications both during the campaign and after Reagan's victory. After eighteen months in the New York City townhouse, Nixon and his wife moved in 1981 to Saddle River, New Jersey.
Richard Nixon | Author and elder statesman
Nixon married Margaret Burton in 1947; the couple divorced in 1952. Later the same year, Nixon married his second wife, Paula Marshall (Pauline E. Youngs), who worked with him in his act. Paula died aged 28 in a car crash in 1956, the year after the birth of their son Nicholas. Nixon remarried in 1961 to Vivienne Nichols, the daughter of the bandleader Eric Robinson. The couple had a daughter, Mandy (Amanda E Nixon), in 1961.
David Nixon (magician) | Private life
Julie Nixon Eisenhower (born July 5, 1948) is an American author who is the younger daughter of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States, and is the wife of David Eisenhower, grandson of President Eisenhower. Born in Washington, D.C., while her father was a Congressman, Julie and her elder sister, Patricia Nixon Cox, grew up in the public eye. Her father was elected U.S. Senator from California when she was two and Vice President of the United States when she was four. Her 1968 marriage to David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight D.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower | Introduction
On November 19, 1904, Poynter married actor Burton S. Nixon at Creston, Iowa. A native of Nevada, Missouri, Nixon became Poynter’s stage and business manager over the years of their marriage. Poynter married twice more, John Bowers ("né" Bowersox), her leading man over the early 1910s. and by 1930, George Leffler (1874–1951), a one-time actor turned theatrical producer and booking agent. The latter union would end with his death in 1951. Poynter died nine years later, aged 77, at Manhasset, Long Island.
Beulah Poynter | Personal life
She was married to poet Dean Young from 1983 to 2010. In 2015, she married her former teacher and mentor at UC-Irvine, Hazard Adams.
Cornelia Nixon | Personal life
He graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937 and returned to California to practice law. He and his wife Pat moved to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. He served on active duty in the Navy Reserve during World War II. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. His pursuit of the Hiss Case established his reputation as a leading anti-Communist which elevated him to national prominence. In 1950, he was elected to the Senate. He was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in the 1952 election, subsequently serving for eight years as the vice president.
Richard Nixon | Introduction
On June 4, 2011, Cox married Andrea Catsimatidis, daughter of Gristedes billionaire John Catsimatidis, at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on New York's Upper East Side. The couple filed for divorce on December 17, 2014.
Christopher Nixon Cox | Personal life
Tricia Nixon married Harvard Law student Edward Finch Cox in a White House Rose Garden ceremony on June 12, 1971. She has lived a very private life in the suburbs of New York, and was a stay-at-home mother for her son, Christopher Nixon Cox, born in March 1979. Her husband is now a corporate attorney and was a chairman of the New York Republican State Committee. She serves on the boards of many medical research institutions, as well as the Richard Nixon Foundation at the Nixon Library in California.
Tricia Nixon Cox | Marriage and professional activities
David Eisenhower was her civilian escort at the International Debutante Ball. On December 22, 1968, after her father was elected president but before he took office, Julie married David. They both decided they did not want the publicity of a White House wedding. The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale officiated in the non-denominational rite at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower | Marriage
Her grandsons are the screenwriters Ted Griffin and Nicholas Griffin, the sons of a daughter Nixon had with husband William Seiter.
Marian Nixon | Personal life
At the time of her husband coming under consideration for the vice presidential nomination, Pat Nixon was against her husband accepting the selection, as she despised campaigns and had been relieved that as a newly elected senator he would not have another one for six years. She thought she had prevailed in convincing him, until she heard the announcement of the pick from a news bulletin while at the 1952 Republican National Convention. During the Presidential campaign of 1952, Pat Nixon's attitude toward politics changed when her husband was accused of accepting illegal campaign contributions. Pat encouraged him to fight the charges, and he did so by delivering the famed "Checkers speech", so-called for the family's dog, a cocker spaniel given to them by a political supporter.
Pat Nixon | Wife of the vice president, 1953–1961
Nixon married Sally Lewis Wood of Washington, D.C. in 1891. She died June 15, 1937. Mrs. Nixon was a descendant of General Andrew Lewis of Colonial Virginia. Their son was Stanhope Wood Nixon. Adolfo Müller-Ury also painted him full-length in Scottish costume in 1902-1903.
Lewis Nixon (naval architect) | Shipbuilding and other businesses
Boddy's paper endorsed her, while Truman praised her. Douglas's actor husband, Melvyn Douglas, on tour with the play "Two Blind Mice" throughout the campaign, spoke out on behalf of his wife, as did movie stars Myrna Loy and Eddie Cantor. Nixon had several Hollywood personalities supporting him, including Howard Hughes, Cecil B. DeMille and John Wayne. Another actor, Ronald Reagan, was among Douglas's supporters, but when his girlfriend and future wife Nancy Davis took him to a pro-Nixon rally led by actress ZaSu Pitts, he was converted to Nixon's cause and led quiet fundraising for him. Douglas was apparently unaware of this—30 years later she mentioned Reagan in her memoirs as someone who worked hard for her.
1950 United States Senate election in California | Name-calling and supporters: the final days
Richard Dix married his first wife, Winifred Coe, on October 20, 1931. They had a daughter, Martha Mary Ellen. They divorced in 1933. He married his second wife, Virginia Webster, on June 29, 1934. They had twin boys, Richard Jr. and Robert Dix, and an adopted daughter, Sara Sue. Dix supported Thomas Dewey in the 1944 United States presidential election. He retired from films in 1947.
Richard Dix | Private life
After graduating from Duke, Nixon initially hoped to join the FBI. He received no response to his letter of application and learned years later that he had been hired, but his appointment had been canceled at the last minute due to budget cuts. Instead, he returned to California and was admitted to the California bar in 1937. He began practicing in Whittier with the law firm Wingert and Bewley, working on commercial litigation for local petroleum companies and other corporate matters, as well as on wills. In later years, Nixon proudly said he was the only modern president to have previously worked as a practicing attorney.
Richard Nixon | Early career and marriage
Means wrote "The Woman in the White House", a book on the lives of 12 notable first ladies published by Random House Publishing in 1963. Some of these president's wives were Bess Truman (wife of Harry S. Truman), Mamie Eisenhower (wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower), and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (wife of John F. Kennedy).
Marianne Means | Works
From 1948 to 1962, he was married to the journalist and showbusiness interviewer Romany Bain, with whom he had four children. One of their sons became an Anglican priest-clown known as Roly Bain or "Holy Roly". Their eldest son, Simon Bain, is a journalist. Romany Bain subsequently married jazz bandleader Tommy Watt, with whom she had a son, the musician Ben Watt. Richard married Angela Colbert in 1977. At his memorial service in 1985, Michael Foot and Sir John Gielgud led the tributes.
Richard Findlater | Personal life
He died in 1952. In November 1954, she married for the third time, to Richard Lunn (d. 1962), a forty-year-old public-relations man and step-son of U.S. Senator Wallace H. White, in Washington, D.C. They divorced five years later, and he died shortly thereafter in 1962.
Liz Whitney Tippett | Personal life
Richard married Betsy Conti ( Cahill) in 1962 and had four children whom they raised in Manly.
Richard Conti | Early life and background
On February 22, 1962, she married industrialist C. Wyatt Dickerson, and became stepmother to his three daughters from a prior marriage. They had two sons together, Michael and John. They lived at "Merrywood," a 46-acre estate in McLean, Virginia throughout most of the marriage, which ended in divorce. In her 1976 memoir "Among Those Present", she recalled that "The Washington Daily News" once offered her a job as women's editor but that she turned it down because "it seemed outlandish to try to change the world writing shopping and food columns." She appeared as a mystery guest on the game show "What's My Line?" Dickerson moved to New York City in 1989.
Nancy Dickerson | Personal
Prebble has been married three times. His first wife was Nancy Cocks, and his second was Doreen Kuper, a former Honorary Consul for the Solomon Islands in New Zealand. His current wife is former Press Gallery radio journalist Ngahuia Wade. Nancy was a member of the Labour Party's Fijian branch and in 1975 she was elected to Labour's national executive.
Richard Prebble | Early and personal life
In 1929, Buttenwieser married Helen Lehman, the daughter of Arthur Lehman, then senior partner at Lehman Brothers. (She was one of the first women admitted to the City Bar Association of New York and in 1979, became the first chairwoman of the Legal Aid Society.) They had three sons: Lawrence B. Buttenwieser, Peter L. Buttenwieser, and Paul A. Buttenwieser. As Helen L. Buttenwieser, she was an attorney for Alger Hiss. Their activism landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. He died age 91 of a heart attack on December 31, 1991, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
Benjamin Buttenwieser | Personal and death
Nixon has been married to actress/producer/director/dancer Debbie Allen since 1984 and they have three children, actor DeVaughn Nixon (Allen is his stepmother), dancer Vivian Nichole Nixon, and basketball player Norman Ellard Nixon Jr. (Wofford College & Southern University). Nixon's sister-in-law is actress/director/singer Phylicia Rashad. Before they were married, both Nixon and Allen appeared in the 1979 film "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" (a film that also featured NBA stars Julius Erving and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).
Norm Nixon | Personal life
Joan Lowery was born on February 3, 1927 in Los Angeles, California. In 1947, she received a degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California. At USC, she met her husband, Hershell, a United States Navy officer and a geologist. At USC she was a member of Kappa Delta sorority. She taught school in Los Angeles before starting her family. In 1964 her first book for children, "The Mystery of Hurricane Castle", was published. Her son, Joe Nixon, is a Houston lawyer, who was from 1995 to 2007 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 133 in Houston.
Joan Lowery Nixon | Biography
Nixon is married to Nick Nixon and she has three children – Tia, Chip and Trace. She balances a busy musical career and family life while still finding time for the great outdoors. She loves to spend her "spare" time gardening, fishing and camping. Her husband Nick is an acoustic country artist who collaborates with Nixon. He has most recently been listed as a band member in "Drive". In 2005 Nixon postponed her California tour due to an illness in the family. Her daughter was undergoing her fourth heart surgery. Due to her own personal experiences, Nixon has often worked with charity organizations such as the American Heart Association and the Shriners.
Michelle Nixon | Personal life
NOTE: Nixon's daughter, Julie, is granddaughter-in-law of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
List of United States political families (N) | The Nixons and Coxes
Nixon, her husband, and their children lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, before finally settling in the Memorial and Tanglewood area of Houston, Texas. She died of pancreatic cancer in Houston on June 28, 2003.
Joan Lowery Nixon | Biography
After leaving office Nixon moved to University City, Missouri with his wife Georganne. The couple have two adult sons, Jeremiah and Will, both named after their father. Nixon is a Methodist.
Jay Nixon | Personal life
It has been said that few, if any, First Ladies worked as consistently before marrying as did Pat Nixon. As she told the writer Gloria Steinem during the 1968 presidential campaign, "I never had time to think about things like that—who I wanted to be, or who I admired, or to have ideas. I never had time to dream about being anyone else. I had to work." After graduating from Excelsior High School in 1929, she attended Fullerton College. She paid for her education by working odd jobs, including as a driver, a pharmacy manager, a telephone operator, and a typist.
Pat Nixon | Education and career
In the 1960 election, Vice President Nixon ran for President of the United States against Democratic opponent Senator John F. Kennedy. Pat was featured prominently in the effort; an entire advertising campaign was built around the slogan "Pat for First Lady". Nixon conceded the election to Kennedy, although the race was very close and there were allegations of voter fraud. Pat had urged her husband to demand a recount of votes, though Nixon declined. Pat was most upset about the television cameras, which recorded her reaction when her husband lost—"millions of television viewers witnessed her desperate fight to hold a smile upon her lips as her face came apart and the bitter tears flowed from her eyes", as one reporter put it.
Pat Nixon | Her husband's campaigns—1960, 1962 and 1968
He graduated from UCLA in 1937 with a degree in political science. Counts attended the University of Southern California Law School. While in law school, his girlfriend and future wife, Virginia Shugart, was the roommate of Pat Ryan, the girlfriend and future wife of Richard Nixon, and they first met each other at a party following the 1939 Rose Bowl in which Counts' USC team beat Duke University, where Nixon was attending law school. The two couples double dated, and the Nixons participated in the wedding party at the Counts wedding, and they remained longtime friends. Counts graduated with his law degree in 1941.
J. Curtis Counts | Early life and education
Buchanan married White House staffer Shelley Ann Scarney in 1971. Their longtime tabby cat, Gipper, was named after the nickname of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and reportedly sat on Buchanan's lap during staff meetings. Buchanan identifies as a Traditionalist Catholic who attends Mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, and strongly defended Summorum Pontificum.
Pat Buchanan | Personal life
Impressed by his neatness and efficiency, she accepted his job offer in 1951. She developed a very close relationship with the Nixon family, especially First Lady Pat Nixon.
Rose Mary Woods | Early life and connection to Nixon
Nixon married Clara Jane Lemke (1920–2013) in 1942 and had two sons, Richard C. Nixon and Donald A. Nixon, and a daughter, Lawrene Mae Nixon Anfinson. In January 1957 Howard Hughes lent Nixon $205,000 to bail out his "Nixon's" drive-in restaurant in Whittier, California. The restaurant went bankrupt less than a year later. Questions about whether this was a political favor dogged Richard Nixon during his campaign for president and later when he sought the governorship of California. Nixon never lived it down, and one of the many speculated motives for the 1972 Watergate burglary that ultimately led to Richard Nixon's resignation was a desire to find proof that the then-Democratic National Committee chairman Larry O'Brien was also secretly working for Hughes.
Donald Nixon | Life
She married Stanhope Wood Nixon January 23, 1917 in New York City. He was the son of Lewis Nixon I, a naval architect who briefly led Tammany Hall, and who was the namesake of Nixon Nitration Works and its home village of Nixon, New Jersey. Stanhope had become a subject of controversy several years before their marriage, after he was arrested for assaulting and seriously injuring a phone company engineer in New Haven following a wine party (an offense for which he was fined but not jailed). Doris and Stanhope were joined the following year by a son, Lewis Nixon III, and in 1923 by a daughter, Blanche Nixon.
Doris Ryer Nixon | Marriage and family
Reportedly, Agnew's reaction to Richard Nixon naming her husband as his running mate was a tearful, "can you get out of it?" When asked by the press what she thought of her husband's new position, she told several publications that she was "trying to keep the ashtrays clean." In 1969, Agnew hosted a dinner at the White House for seventy-five female reporters. Her husband played piano for the guests and left before the meal was served. Agnew preferred to avoid political conversations in the press while serving as Second Lady. In 1967, Agnew told "The Evening Sun", "I'll still make brief remarks, at luncheons and teas and so on, but I'm not a speech maker.
Judy Agnew | Second Lady of the United States
He was formerly married to Peggy Noonan. They have one son, Will, born in 1987. He was formerly married to Joy Moore. They have one daughter, Margie, born in 1963.
Richard W. Rahn | Personal life
Waldron, Julia Gardiner Tyler became the second wife of President Tyler a couple of years later, at the age of 24.
Richard Russell Waldron | Washington, D.C
The couple divorced in 1978. Originally a Conservative, by the time of her divorce she had moved to the left, becoming a committed feminist. MI5 classified her a "Communist sympathiser" in the 1970s because of her relationship with William (Bill) Jack Birtles, a radical lawyer. In 1981, she married Birtles in Camden; they have a daughter (born September 1986) and a son (born February 1988). In 1971, she became Age Concern's Press and Public Relations Officer, before joining the National Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty), initially as a women's rights officer in 1973, and for nine years from 1974 as the general secretary.
Patricia Hewitt | Early life
In 1835 he married Margaret Sidgley. Following her death in 1865 he married Janet Craig in 1875. Children from the first marriage included John Nixon (1836-1886) Free Church minister of Barrhill, South Ayrshire.
William Nixon (minister) | Family
He was married twice, first, in 1929, to Mary Edith Nixon. The couple had a son and a daughter; Mary died in 1949. His second wife was Mrs Anthony Milburn.
Colin Muir Barber | Postwar
Married four times, she had one son, Richard (born November 12, 1952), with her husband Mortimer Hall, son of publisher Dorothy Schiff. She married Hall on December 17, 1950. In 1956, she sued him for divorce, and the divorce decree became final on April 15, 1957. Roman was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.
Ruth Roman | Personal life
From 1988 to 2003, Nixon was in a relationship with schoolteacher Danny Mozes. They have two children together. In June 2018, Nixon revealed that their older child is transgender. In 2004, Nixon began dating education activist Christine Marinoni. Nixon and Marinoni became engaged in April 2009, and married in New York City on May 27, 2012, with Nixon wearing a custom-made, pale green dress by Carolina Herrera. Marinoni gave birth to a son, Max Ellington, in 2011. Regarding her sexual orientation, Nixon remarked in 2007: "I don't really feel I've changed. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman.
Cynthia Nixon | Personal life
Rogers was no relation to President Richard M. Nixon's Secretary of State William P. Rogers. Rogers majored in international affairs at Princeton University and graduated from Yale Law School in 1951. Rogers was survived by his wife of 56 years, Suzanne Rochford "Suki" Rogers, two sons, Dr. William D. Rogers Jr. and Daniel R. Rogers, a sister, and four grandchildren.
William D. Rogers | Personal
She filed for divorce in 1948; the divorce was final in 1949 and Wyman leased a home in Palm Springs, California. In 1981, Ronald Reagan became the first divorcé to assume the nation's highest office. This made Wyman the first former wife of an American president who was still living at the time that her former husband became president. Although she remained silent during Reagan's political career, she told a newspaper interviewer in 1968 that this was not because she was bitter, or because she did not agree with him politically: In spite of her divorce, according to her former personal assistant, Wyman still voted for her former husband in the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections.
Jane Wyman | Ronald Reagan
In 1938, he married Monica Stuart MacArthur, originally from New Mexico.
Richard Usborne | Early life
Korir is married to Berryl Zoraima. They have three children together 2 daughters and a son.
Nixon Kiprotich Korir | Personal life
When Tunney lost re-election in 1976, Harman - then known as Jane Lakes Frank - joined the Carter White House where she served as special counsel to the Department of Defense, and as Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet. She made headlines in 1978, when she quit to spend more time with her children. She and her husband, Richard Frank divorced the same year. Two years later, she married Sidney Harman, who she had met in the White House when he was her first husband's boss. Through the 1980s, Jane Harman worked as a corporate lawyer and as a director of her husband's company, Harman International Industries.
Jane Harman | Early career
In January 1942 the couple moved to Washington, D.C., where Nixon took a job at the Office of Price Administration. In his political campaigns, Nixon would suggest that this was his response to Pearl Harbor, but he had sought the position throughout the latter part of 1941. Both Nixon and his wife believed he was limiting his prospects by remaining in Whittier. He was assigned to the tire rationing division, where he was tasked with replying to correspondence. He did not enjoy the role, and four months later applied to join the United States Navy. As a birthright Quaker, he could have by law claimed exemption from the draft; he might also have been deferred because he worked in government service.
Richard Nixon | Military service
President Richard Nixon's daughters gave Kennedy a tour that included his old bedroom, and Nixon showed him the "Resolute" desk under which his father had let him play.
John F. Kennedy Jr. | Mother's remarriage
Following Roger's death from cancer in 1967, Virginia Clinton married hairdresser Jeff Dwire in 1969; he subsequently died of complications of diabetes in 1974. On January 17, 1982, she married Richard Kelley (1915–2007), an executive at a food distribution brokerage firm. Their marriage lasted until her death on January 6, 1994 from complications of breast cancer, at the age of 70, at her home in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She died just under a year after her son became the 42nd President of the United States on January 20, 1993. She is buried alongside her first husband William J. Blythe at Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas.
Virginia Clinton Kelley | Last years
Julie Nixon Eisenhower stated that the First Lady would have ordered the tapes destroyed immediately, had she known of their existence. Once she did learn of the tapes, she vigorously opposed making them public, and compared them to "private love letters—for one person alone". Believing in her husband's innocence, she also encouraged him not to resign and instead fight all the impeachment charges that were eventually leveled against him. She said to her friend Helene Drown, "Dick has done so much for the country. Why is this happening?" After President Nixon told his family he would resign the office of the presidency, she replied "But why?" She contacted White House curator Clement Conger to cancel any further development of a new official china pattern from the Lenox China Company, and began supervising the packing of the family's personal belongings.
Pat Nixon | Watergate
He married the late Jennifer Geer (1976 to 2015). They had six children. He later married Ann Peterson Tempest in 2018.
Richard George (athlete) | Personal
Foy married Sam Nixon in December 2012. They have a daughter, Meridon, and a son, Doyle together.
Anne Foy | Personal life
In 1961, Eisenhower retired with the former president to Gettysburg, their first permanent home. They also had a retirement home in Palm Desert, California. After her husband's death in 1969, she continued to live full-time on the farm until she took an apartment in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s. She appeared in a campaign commercial for her husband's former Vice President Richard Nixon in 1972. David Eisenhower, her grandson, married Richard Nixon's daughter Julie on December 22, 1968, bringing the two families closer together. The Nixons regularly invited Mamie to the White House, for example, including her in their Christmas dinner.
Mamie Eisenhower | Later life
At a 1973 inaugural ball for Richard Nixon, Christine had her first date with John R. Whitman, an old friend she had met while a student at Chapin. The pair married the next year. Whitman was a businessman and an investment banker; he was also the grandson of early 20th-century Governor of New York Charles S. Whitman. While governor, Whitman used Pontefract, the family farm on which she was raised, as her primary residence. Whitman had purchased the property in 1991 following the death of her mother. With her late husband, Whitman has two children: daughter Kate and son Taylor.
Christine Todd Whitman | Personal life
Nixon was born in Manhattan, the only child of Walter Elmer Nixon Jr., a radio journalist from Texas, and Anne Elizabeth (née Knoll, an actress originally from Chicago. She credits her mother with "indoctrinating" her into theatre. She is of English and German descent. Her grandparents were Adolph Knoll, Etta Elizabeth Williams, Walter E. Nixon, and Grace Truman McCormack. Nixon's parents divorced when she was six years old. According to Nixon, her father was often unemployed and her mother was the household's main breadwinner: Nixon's mother worked on the game show "To Tell the Truth", coaching the "impostors" who claimed to be the person described by the host.
Cynthia Nixon | Early life and education
In 1963 the Nixon family traveled to Europe, where Nixon gave press conferences and met with leaders of the countries he visited. The family moved to New York City, where Nixon became a senior partner in the leading law firm Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander. When announcing his California campaign, Nixon had pledged not to run for president in 1964; even if he had not, he believed it would be difficult to defeat Kennedy, or after his assassination, Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson.
Richard Nixon | 1960 and 1962 elections; wilderness years
He and his first wife, the late Elaine Young, had five children. He is currently married to Ashira.
Richard D. Young | Personal
In 1942, she moved to California when she married San Francisco businessman Frederick H. Smith IV, her third husband, whom she later divorced. She married again in 1962, to Savings and Loan executive Albert W. Gatov, who died in 1978. Mrs. Gatov returned to her Marin home from Washington in 1962 and remained active in Democratic politics for the next 20 years. She was a close friend of the Kennedy family and many other luminaries of the national Democratic Party.
Elizabeth Rudel Smith | Personal life
Dick Cheney is married to his wife, Janie, and has three kids. He is a member of Rotary International.
Richard Cheney (New Mexico politician) | Personal life