The iconic red coat worn by Pat Nixon on display as part of the special exhibit, Why They Wore It: The Politics and Pop Culture of First Ladies’ Fashion, at the Richard Nixon Library ...

In “The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon,” the historian Heath Hardage Lee tries to give the oft-maligned “Plastic Pat” her due.

A new book details the unusual — and little-known — life of Pat Nixon, wife of former President Richard Nixon.

Yet Pat Nixon stayed true to herself and her core beliefs, even as she longed for a more private life. Her example offers valuable lessons for first and second ladies, including Mrs. Trump and Mrs ...

First ladies have carefully crafted their fashion statements since long before Melania Trump made headlines for her style earlier this year. In 1972, Pat Nixon wore a tea-length bright red coat ...

But ahead of the trip, the president vacillated on whether to let Pat join him, even as she lobbied him privately and through the media to include her. Nixon ultimately relented but told his chief ...

But few political partnerships are as enigmatic or intriguing as that of Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, a “complex and mysterious” relationship examined by Will Swift in his romanticized ...

“Pat and Dick” is an earnest book, overlong by perhaps a hundred pages, that here and there offers a useful insight into the Nixons as individuals and as partners but really does not add much ...

“Pat is best known for her grace as first lady during a remarkably turbulent time in American history, but it is her eight years as second lady that were the preamble to her very public life&… ...

Biographer Lee (The League of Wives) paints an intriguingly sympathetic portrait of first lady Pat Nixon (1912–1993), framing her as an unfairly maligned figure (she was famously nicknamed ...