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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 02:46 PM Mar 2012

Nixon in Love (letters)

Richard Nixon sure had a way with his lady.

The nation's 37th president married his wife, Pat, after a courtship that was marked by love letters in which the two flirted the old-fashioned way: via pen and paper.

Nixon called her his "dearest heart" and his "Irish gypsy" in newly unveiled love letters going on display Friday at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda. The exhibit honors First Lady Pat Nixon on what would have been her 100th birthday.

"Every day and every night I want to see you and be with you," Nixon wrote in one letter. "Let's go for a long ride Sunday; let's go to the mountains weekends; let's read books in front of fires; most of all, let's really grow together and find the happiness we know is ours."

By contrast, Pat played it coy and cool.

She started out one letter, seen above, by saying "social note -- romantic?" She goes on: "In case I don't see you before why don't you come early Wednesday...and I'll see if I can burn a hamburger for you."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-richard-nixon-love-letters-20120312,0,1135800.story



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Nixon in Love (letters) (Original Post) WI_DEM Mar 2012 OP
I'm trying to picture Nixon being genuine, tender and romantic........... Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2012 #1
I can see Nixon being that more than I can see Santorum, Gingrich or Romney jmowreader Mar 2012 #3
There was a reason why he was nicknamed, "Tricky Dick". nt madinmaryland Mar 2012 #2

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
1. I'm trying to picture Nixon being genuine, tender and romantic...........
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 11:53 PM
Mar 2012

Ewwwwwwwwww Creepy: puke: am I done yet no wait...... ahhhh ok. No wait .... . I'm ok now.

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