Lester David’s The Lonely Lady of San Clemente painted her as a tragic figure while Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s adoring Pat Nixon: The Untold Story fell short of offering an objective portrait. This first scholarly biography of Thelma Ryan Nixon-the first biography in thirty-five years and the first to access her papers-goes further than any other book to show readers the real Pat Nixon.

Although public opinion polls rated her one of our nation’s most admired women, few Americans really knew much about her. Sy Scholfield quotes 'Second Daughter Born to Nixons in Washington,' The Pomona Progress Bulletin (Pomona, California), 6 July 1948, section 2, page 1, born at Columbia Hospital.Pat Nixon may be the least understood of modern first ladies. Relationship : Marriage 22 December 1968 (David Eisenhower).sibling relationship with Cox, Tricia (born 21 February 1946).spouse relationship with Eisenhower, David (born 31 March 1948).child->parent relationship with Nixon, Richard (born 9 January 1913).child->parent relationship with Nixon, Pat (born 16 March 1912).parent->child relationship with Eisenhower, Melanie Catherine (born 18 June 1984).parent->child relationship with Eisenhower, Jennie (born 15 August 1978).parent->child relationship with Eisenhower, Alex (born 10 October 1980).Link to Wikipedia biography Relationships She is the mother of two daughters, Jennie Eisenhower and Melanie Catherine Eisenhower, and a son, Alex Eisenhower. She continues to engage in works that support her parents' legacies and is on the board of directors of the Richard Nixon Foundation. After her father resigned from the presidency in 1974, she wrote a biography of her mother, the New York Times best-seller Pat Nixon: The Untold Story. Throughout the Nixon administration (1969 to 1974), Julie worked as Assistant Managing Editor of The Saturday Evening Post while holding the unofficial title of 'First Daughter.' She was widely noted as one of her father's most vocal and active defenders and was named one of the 'Ten Most Admired Women in America' for four years by readers of Good Housekeeping magazine in the 1970s. Her 1968 marriage to David Eisenhower, grandson of President Eisenhower, was seen as a union between two of the most prominent political families in the United States. Senator from California when she was two and Vice President of the United States when she was four. Eisenhower.īorn while her father was a Congressman, Julie and her elder sister, Patricia Nixon Cox, grew up in the public eye.

American author from a noted family, the younger daughter of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States, and the wife of David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight D.

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