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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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