On July 25, 1969, the Nixon Doctrine was announced, and along with it, the expectation for America’s Asian allies to become responsible for their own military defense. During his campaign, Nixon ...
In the modern era, Patricia Nixon was probably the most private person to ever occupy the White House. Roanoke writer Heath Hardage Lee has put those years into perspective in a keen, brightly written ...
In “The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon,” the historian Heath Hardage Lee tries to give the oft-maligned “Plastic Pat” her due. By Amy S. Greenberg Amy S. Greenberg is the head of the history department at Penn ...
Being a wife was job one for Pat Nixon. “I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband,” she once said. Tagged as “Plastic Pat” for ...
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 “Plastic ...