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Ann Beattie's new book is a stunner -- brilliant, unorthodox and, often, transformative. But it is ultimately unfair to its purported subject, Pat Nixon - - the quiet spouse of the only U.S. president to resign from office, who, dated and Barbie-dollish as she seemed to many of us at the time, hardly deserved deconstruction at so relentless a hand as Beattie's.
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YORBA LINDA - The essence of former first lady Pat Nixon came to life Tuesday in the form of a family friend. Maureen Nunn premiered her one-woman Pat Nixon show Tuesday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum as part of its "Meet the Presidents" series.
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The Christmas stars aligned for Charleston's Kathy Gastinger and her sister, allowing the women to be part of the 2011 decorating team for the White House in Washington, D.C. We've watched the television show every season about the decorations at the White House," Gastinger said. "All the way back to Jackie Kennedy, Pat Nixon. We realized they were all volunteers who do the work and thought, 'Gee, we would love to do that!'
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The one big interview Mike Wallace regrets never landing was with Pat Nixon. Wallace, who was given a lifetime achievement award by the New York Press Club on Tuesday night, said he learned while traveling with the Nixons in 1968 that she was a brave, smart woman -- not the "plastic Pat" as she was sometimes portrayed.
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Although her parents died when she was in her teens, Pat Nixon was determined to get ahead. She went to work so she could attend college. She was fond of acting on the stage and met Richard M. Nixon in a Whittier Community Players production of "The Dark Tower." They married in 1940. As a political wife and eventual first lady, Pat was soft-spoken, dutiful and even tragic as her life fell in her husband's shadow. All of this can be gleaned from Ann Beattie's book "Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life," but it is hardly at the center. Beattie begins by listing the 11 nicknames Pat, born Thelma, went by. "Names, nicknames, they're fascinating," Beattie explains. Surprisingly, she is not talking about the subject of her book, but about the process of writing. "Names, nicknames, they're f...
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Washington, by contrast, has shunned such EU-style social investment in heavy migrant-sending areas in places like Mexico and Central America and continues to champion so-called free trade agreements of the neoliberal variety, which have proven to increase migratory pressures when instituted between profoundly unequal economies - as NAFTA has demonstrated.11 More fundamental to challenging the barricades that litter the U. S. -Mexico border region is perhaps what Pat Nixon suggested in 1971 during her visit to Imperial Beach.
