Tricia Nixon Cox
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Patricia Nixon Cox (née Nixon; born February 21, 1946) is the elder daughter of the 37th United States president Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, and the sister of Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
She is married to Edward F. Cox and is the mother of Christopher Nixon Cox.
In her father's public career, Cox performed a ceremonial role, in contrast to Julie's more political involvement. She accompanied him on many campaign stops and, after his inauguration, on state trips around the world.
Early life
Nixon was born on February 21, 1946, at Murphy Memorial Hospital in Whittier, California.[2] She grew up in Washington, D.C., attending Horace Mann Elementary and the Sidwell Friends School. Later she attended the Chapin School in Manhattan.[3]
In 1964, she was presented as a debutante to high society at the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Edward Cox was her civilian escort at the ball.[4]
She briefly attended the now-defunct women's college Finch College, then Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. At her graduation on June 14, 1968, her father served as a special guest speaker.[citation needed] In 1968, future president George W. Bush took Nixon on a date arranged by his father. After Bush spilled wine and tried to smoke a cigarette, Nixon requested to be taken back to the White House.[5]
Marriage and professional activities
Tricia Nixon married Harvard Law student Edward F. Cox in a White House Rose Garden ceremony on June 12, 1971.[6]
In a 2015 interview with Max Foster for CNN regarding an upcoming visit to the United States, Charles, then Prince of Wales, recalled his first visit to the U.S. in 1970 as "the time when they were trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon" who was nearly three years his senior and American.[7] Nixon had represented the U.S. government along with former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at Charles' investiture in Caernarvon Wales one year earlier in July 1969.[8]
She has lived a very private life in the suburbs of New York, and was a stay-at-home mother to her son,[citation needed] Christopher Nixon Cox, born in March 1979.[3] Her husband is now a corporate attorney and a chairman of the New York Republican State Committee. She serves on the boards of many medical research institutions,[9] as well as the Richard Nixon Foundation at the Nixon Library in California.[10]
Notes
- ^ Dean, John (1976). Blind Ambition The White House Years. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 161. ISBN 0671224387.
- ^ Ambrose, Stephen E. (1988). Nixon: Volume One, The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962 (2 ed.). Simon and Schuster. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-671-65722-2.
On the twenty-first, she went into Murphy Memorial Hospital and gave birth to a girl. Pat called her Patricia, quickly shortened to "Tricia"
- ^ a b Doug Wead (2003). All the Presidents' Children. Atria Books. p. 260. ISBN 0743446313.
- ^ Editors, Rolling Stone (24 June 1971). "The Making of the President's Daughter". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
- ^ Kedmey, Dan (2014-11-11). "George W. Bush Once Dated Nixon's Daughter, And It Did Not Go Well". TIME. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ "Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com". UPI. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ^ "Prince Charles & Tricia Nixon: The match that almost was | CNN". CNN. 11 March 2015.
- ^ "Crowds fall for Tricia". Western Mail. (Wales). 2 July 1969. p. 4. "Pretty Tricia Nixon, the 23-year-old daughter of President Richard Nixon, won the hearts of Welsh people yesterday when she arrived for the investiture. Although many people outside Caernarvon station did not recognise the small blonde in the white hat and white-and-green coat she stole the limelight on the station platform..."
- ^ "Nixon Daughters Bury the Hatchet". Time Magazine. May 6, 2002.
- ^ "Who Owns Richard Nixon?". The New Yorker. May 20, 2014.
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- "Nixon goes to China"
- Millhouse (1971 film)
- An Evening with Richard Nixon (1972 play)
- Richard (1972 film)
- Another Nice Mess (1972 film)
- Four More Years (1972 film)
- Impeach the President (1973 song)
- The Werewolf of Washington (1973 film)
- White House Madness (1975 film)
- All the President's Men (1976 film)
- The Public Burning (1977 novel)
- Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977 miniseries)
- Secret Honor (1984 film)
- Nixon in China (1987 opera)
- The Final Days (1989 film)
- Nixon (1995 film)
- Elvis Meets Nixon (1997 film)
- Futurama (1999 TV series)
- Dick (1999 film)
- Nixon's China Game (2000 film)
- Dark Side of the Moon (2002 film)
- The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004 film)
- Frost–Nixon interviews (2006 play, 2008 film)
- Black Dynamite (2009 film)
- "The Impossible Astronaut" (2011 TV episode)
- Our Nixon (2013 film)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014 film)
- Crooked (2015 novel)
- Elvis & Nixon (2016 film)
- The Post (2017 film)
- Watergate (2019 board game)
- U.S. postage stamp
- Nixon parody account
- Jack Brennan (aide de camp)
- Murray Chotiner (early campaign manager)
- Manolo Sanchez (valet)
- Rose Mary Woods (secretary)
- Thelma "Pat" Ryan Nixon (wife)
- Tricia Nixon Cox (daughter)
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower (daughter)
- Christopher Nixon Cox (grandson)
- Jennie Eisenhower (granddaughter)
- Francis A. Nixon (father)
- Hannah Milhous Nixon (mother)
- Donald Nixon (brother)
- Edward Nixon (brother)