![]() ![]() Made wary by early hardships (she’d started life in a Nevada miner’s cabin), Pat was, at most, intrigued. ![]() He had fallen for Pat Ryan (“my Irish Gypsy”) instantly and hard when they met in 1938, through a community theater group in Whittier, Calif. Now comes “Pat and Dick,” Will Swift’s fair-minded and thorough attempt to trace the long, jagged arc of the Nixons’ marriage, a devoted and sometimes strained journey that ended when Richard Nixon, convulsed with sobs, helped bury his wife in 1993. Nixon”) and become the subject of a reliable scholarly biography by Mary C. More recently she has been refracted into both fiction (my own novel “Watergate”) and metafiction (Ann Beattie’s “Mrs. It’s so sad.”įor many years the chief biography of Pat Nixon was a sturdy but hardly impartial book by her younger child, Julie Nixon Eisenhower. If the portrait could speak, it would most likely say what she herself did after the helicopter lifted off from the South Lawn on Aug. Nixon seems stricken, ready to brim with tears. ![]() The picture was created several years after the Nixons’ abrupt departure from Washington, and only for the sake of the subject’s daughters. ![]() Visitors to the White House who seek out the well-known portraits of Jacqueline Kennedy and Nancy Reagan - eerie, El Greco-like elongations executed by Aaron Shikler - are sometimes surprised to have their attention arrested by Henriette Wyeth Hurd’s rendering of the far-less-chronicled Pat Nixon. ![]()
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