On January 20, Melania Trump and Usha Vance will assume the historic roles of first and second ladies of the United States, stepping into positions shaped by centuries of tradition and change. Each ...

Thelma Ryan was only 13, a freshman at Excelsior Union High School in Artesia, Calif., when her mother Kate, a German immigrant and Christian Scientist from South Dakota, died from liver cancer at 45.

Born in the same year, 1912, the Girl Scouts and Pat Nixon were linked from the time she was a troop leader for her daughters to when she was first lady and became honorary national president of the ...

The National Archives is paying special attention to first ladies Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon, as 2012 marks the year that both women would have turned 100. But since dresses and accessories ...

MRS. NIXON: A Novelist Imagines a Life, by Ann Beattie (Scribner) One of the most poignant parts of Ann Beattie s new work, Mrs. Nixon, is a page at the beginning listing the nicknames of Thelma ...

In the modern era, Patricia Nixon was probably the most private person to ever occupy the White House. Roanoke writer Heath Hardage Lee has put those years into perspective in a keen, brightly written ...

We never knew her. Not really. Not the people who once voted her the Most Admired Woman in America. And not the people who once named her Plastic Pat. She came to the White House after Jackie and Lady ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. For the 1969 inaugural balls, Pat ...

When images of the East Wing demolition began to circulate, Penny Adams looked closely. She noticed the windows of the office where Connie Stuart, the staff director and press secretary for Pat Nixon, ...

Barry Goldwater Broadway An Evening With Richard Nixon and... 1972 Campaign Manager Broadway An Evening With Richard Nixon and... 1972 Campaign Worker Broadway An Evening With Richard Nixon and ...