“no less than a month before his passing, he was still in touch with me about the great issues of the day.”
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Pat Nixon
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S. president. From 1953 to 1961, she had been the second lady of the United States when her husband was Dwight D. Eisenhower's vice president.
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entertainment · First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 · actor · politician · stage actor · university teacher · economist · also Pat Nixon, Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon, Patricia Ryan Nixon, Thelma "Pat" Ryan Nixon, Thelma Catherine Patricia Ryan Nixon, Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan Nixon
Born 16 March 1912 · Died 22 June 1993 · Q158707
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2026· 3 entries
“Our hearts were breaking and there we are smiling.”
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“Watergate is the only crisis that ever got me down ... And I know I will never live to see the vindication.”
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2020· 5 entries
Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,061 times.
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Published “The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines” in International Journal of Surgery — cited 4,361 times.
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In the 2014 survey, Nixon and her husband were ranked the 29th-highest out of 39 first couples in terms of being a "power couple"
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Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,315 times.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,054 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 4,633 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 6,200 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Former President Richard Nixon sent a letter to Trump predicting he would be a successful politician whenever he decided to run for office.” True.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)” in Autophagy — cited 4,422 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Published “The Genome Sequence of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>” in Science — cited 4,821 times.
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1994· 1 entry
The Pat Nixon Park was established in Cerritos, California
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1993· 1 entry
Died 1993-06-22.
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1983· 1 entry
And two lung infections the following year
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1981· 1 entry
Moved to a 6,000 square feet (557 m2) house in Saddle River, New Jersey
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1979· 1 entry
And her husband moved to a townhouse on East 65th Street in Manhattan, New York
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1976· 2 entries
At La Casa Pacifica, Nixon suffered a stroke, which resulted in the paralysis of her entire left side
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And another in 1983, and was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1992
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1974· 4 entries
The family met in the solarium of the White House for their last dinner
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And settling into the Nixons' home, La Casa Pacifica, Pat Nixon rarely appeared in public and only granted occasional interviews to the press
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With the unique diplomatic standing of personal representative of the president
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When a reporter asked "Is the press the cause of the president's problems
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1972· 4 entries
On a 10,000-mile (16,093 km), eight-day journey to Ghana, Liberia, and the Ivory Coast
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Became the first Republican First Lady to address a national convention
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Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai was sufficiently smitten with her so as to give two rare giant pandas to the United States as a gift from China
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Her tenure as first lady ended two years later, when President Nixon resigned amid the Watergate scandal
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1970· 1 entry
However, one of the students told the press that "she wanted to listen
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1969· 3 entries
The Nixons began inviting families to non-denominational Sunday church services in the East Room of the White House
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Second in 1970 and 1971, and first in 1972
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Career landmark: First Lady of the United States (1969–1974).
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1968· 1 entry
Pat Nixon met with the outgoing First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson
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1962· 1 entry
The Nixons embarked on another campaign, this time for Governor of California
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1959· 1 entry
That her time in films was "too fleeting even for recollections embellished by the years" and that "my choice of a career was teaching school and the many jobs I pursued were merely to help with college expenses
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1953· 1 entry
Career landmark: Second Lady or Gentleman of the United States (1953–1961).
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1948· 1 entry
Pat had the couple's second and last child, Julie
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1946· 1 entry
When he entered politics and successfully ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives
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1940· 2 entries
At the Mission Inn in Riverside, California
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Married lawyer Richard Nixon and they had two daughters, Tricia and Julie
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1937· 1 entry
Pat Ryan graduated cum laude from USC with a Bachelor of Science degree in merchandising, together with a certificate to teach at the high school level, which USC deemed equivalent to a master's degree
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1931· 2 entries
At the University of Southern California (USC), where she majored in merchandising
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Started using the name "Pat" (and occasionally "Patricia") instead of "Thelma" but she did not legally change her name
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1914· 1 entry
Settled on a small truck farm in Artesia (present-day Cerritos)
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-03-16.
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