![]() ![]() Pete Wilson said, “She was a woman of great strength and generous spirit. He echoed that appraisal in a statement Tuesday.Ĭalifornia Gov. “She is a true, unsung hero of the Nixon Administration and our country owes her a great debt of gratitude,” former President Ronald Reagan said at the dedication. The library, where her memorial services will be conducted Saturday, includes a Pat Nixon room and grounds planted with the red-black Pat Nixon Rose developed by a French firm in 1972 when she was First Lady. Nixon’s last public appearances was in Yorba Linda on July 19, 1990, for the dedication of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, and at a dinner that night for 1,600 friends at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. “She cherishes the privacy of her retirement years,” daughter Julie wrote in her loving 1986 biography, “Pat Nixon: The Untold Story,” which strove to establish her mother’s accomplishments as the most widely traveled First Lady in history with trips to 80 nations, her laudable addition of antiques to the White House and her promotion of volunteerism. She had another stroke in 1983 and had been in frail health for years. ![]() She suffered a major stroke in 1976, which her husband attributed to her reading Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s “The Final Days” about Watergate. Her reclusive years after leaving the White House have been described as “Garboesque,” with her resorting to wigs and disguises to go shopping. ![]()
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