Pat Nixon

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Written By Heather Rogers, presidential doodler

FIRST LADY TO RICHARD NIXON // #37

  • Exceedingly punctual

  • Bobsledded with the tuberculosis patients where she worked

  • Nixon proposed the day they met

  • It took him a while to get her to accept; in the meantime, he drove her to dates with other guys

  • While president, he sent her formal memos addressed to “Mrs. Nixon” written in the third person

  • Arranged a one-person art show at the White House (she was the first to do this — the artist was Andrew Wyeth)

Pat Nixon
Heather Rogers, presidential doodler

I’ve read at least one book about every U.S. president, never tire of shoehorning presidential trivia into conversations, and am basically an expert at hiding mistakes in my sketchbooks.

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