Aside from being the wife of one of the most well-known politicians in recent American history, Pat Nixon is mostly a mystery. Throughout crisis and scandal, she somehow managed to remain a ...

Maureen Drown Nunn pauses before a photo of former President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat, smiling with their arms around each other. Pat wears a long, printed skirt as they pose in San Clemente.

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.

Reporting from Yorba Linda — As the wife of an ambitious politician, Pat Nixon had her hands full. Besides keeping up with Richard Nixon’s various political incarnations, she had a household ...

The thing is, Pat Nixon deserved to be a role model. Orphaned as a teen, she was fiercely independent long before it was fashionable for women. In the midst of the Great Depression, she made her ...