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5 unusual facts about Pat Nixon


Artesia, California

It was also the childhood home of former First Lady Pat Nixon, who lived there from 1914 to 1931, though the property on which she grew up is now part of neighboring Cerritos.

Ferdinando Sarmi

Pat Nixon wore a Sarmi for Arden gown to her husband's second Inaugural Ball in 1957.

Lou Carrol

In 1952, Carrol read a newspaper article that quoted Pat Nixon expressing a desire to have a puppy for the Nixons' two daughters.

Onnig Cavoukian

During his career, Cavouk's subjects included Indira Gandhi, the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, Oscar Peterson, Pierre and Margaret Trudeau, Leonid Brezhnev, Patrick Macnee, Hubert Humphrey, and Pat Nixon.

Patricia Ryan

Pat Nixon, sometimes known as Patricia Ryan, (1912–1993), former first lady of the United States and wife of U.S. president Richard Nixon


J. Curtis Counts

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.

Jennie Eisenhower

She is the granddaughter of former U.S. President Richard Nixon and former First Lady Pat Nixon and the great-granddaughter of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.

John Engstead

His work extended into governmental figures in the 1950s, including then-Second Lady Pat Nixon.

Ralph Perk

Perk's wife, Lucille, achieved notoriety when she rejected an invitation from the First Lady Pat Nixon to an event at the White House in order to attend her regular bowling night.

Republican National Convention

At the 1972 convention, First Lady Pat Nixon became the first First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt and the first Republican First Lady to deliver an address to the convention delegates.


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