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12 de jun. de 2021 · Fifty years after her stunning and well-remembered White House Rose Garden wedding, I spoke exclusively with former first daughter Patricia Nixon Cox to reminisce about that magical day. By Jennifer Boswell Pickens. It’s not surprising that Tricia Nixon Cox still has vivid memories of such a historic and memorable day 50 years ago ...
Saturday, June 12, 2021, marks the 50th wedding anniversary of Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox. Theirs was the first wedding ceremony held outdoors in the White House Rose Garden and one of the most widely documented.
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 .
- Sugarfoot (Secret Service codename)
- Christopher Nixon Cox
- Patricia Nixon, February 21, 1946 (age 77), Whittier, California, U.S.
- The Couple
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- The Ceremony
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Tricia Nixon, 25, and Edward Cox, 24, originally met at a high school dance in 1963, according to the Nixon Foundation; he escorted her to the International Debutante Ball the following year. They dated through college, and in 1970, Cox asked her father for her hand in marriage. But not before she'd had at least one other date, with future U.S. pre...
As the first White House bride to have her ceremony in the Rose Garden, Tricia Nixon was gambling a bit with the weather. "There was a lot of back-and-forth about whether they'd move it inside, but they had a plan for rain," said Pickens. "They kept bringing the chairs in and taking them out." But a brief window of time opened up where it promised ...
Priscilla Kidder, founder of Priscilla of Boston, had gained fame by helping dress Grace Kelly's bridesmaids in 1956, along with designing the wedding gown of Luci Baines Johnson (daughter of President Lyndon Johnson). She was a natural to dress Tricia Nixon, and found a way to be both elegant — the dress was white silk organdy appliquéd with Alenc...
As President Nixon recalled in "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon," the bride emerged from her room between 3 and 4 p.m. that day in her wedding gown and veil, and met up with her mother and sister in the West Hall. Military officers who served as social aides in the White House were holding the 400 guests indoors in case of rain, but a weather report i...
With six tiers, the lemon pound cake was, according to the Chicago Tribune, 350 pounds and big enough (by design) to serve to the press as well as the guests. It was created by White House chef Henry Haller, White House pastry chef Heinz Bender and pastry specialist Maurice Bonté. The ingredients were reasonably simple: sugar, butter, cake flour, l...
Though the ceremony wasn't broadcast live, network specials that were airing later in the day invited the world into the ceremony. According to Pickens, hundreds of journalists were credentialed to cover the wedding and the TV shows attracted 110 million viewers (those numbers include a preview show the night before the wedding). Of course, not all...
14 de jun. de 2021 · It was 50 years ago that Tricia Nixon, daughter of President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, was married to Edward F. Cox in the White House Rose Garden with the nation enjoying...
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12 de jun. de 2014 · 43 years ago today, President Nixon’s eldest daughter Patricia “Tricia” Nixon married Edward Finch Cox. Mindful of her father’s recommendation, Tricia decided to have her wedding at the White House. She was the 8th daughter of a President to be married in the White house and it was the first June wedding held there.
12 de jun. de 2021 · Today is the 50th anniversary of the White House Rose Garden wedding of Tricia Nixon and Edward Finch Cox. See never-before-seen Super 8 film footage, outtakes from the official White House film, and rare photographs from the wedding.
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