I met this guy tonight who says he is going to marry me,” -Pat Ryan to her friends, 1938 Today is the wedding anniversary of Richard and Pat Nixon.  The couple met in 1938, at an audition for a community theater production of “The Dark Tower” in Whittier, California.   Pat was a high school teacher who also worked as a Hollywood extra, and Dick was a recent graduate from Duke University, just starting out as a lawyer.  Two years later, he proposed to Pat in an Oldsmobile pulled up close to the edge of an ocean cliff at sunset. The Nixons were married on June 21, 1940 in Riverside, California.  They are pictured here at the beach in San Clemente, 1/13/71. This year, we are celebrating the Centennials of two U.S. First Ladies, Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson.  More about the First Ladies Centennial here. -from the Nixon Library
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I met this guy tonight who says he is going to marry me,”

-Pat Ryan to her friends, 1938

Today is the wedding anniversary of Richard and Pat Nixon. 

The couple met in 1938, at an audition for a community theater production of “The Dark Tower” in Whittier, California.   Pat was a high school teacher who also worked as a Hollywood extra, and Dick was a recent graduate from Duke University, just starting out as a lawyer.  Two years later, he proposed to Pat in an Oldsmobile pulled up close to the edge of an ocean cliff at sunset.

The Nixons were married on June 21, 1940 in Riverside, California.  They are pictured here at the beach in San Clemente, 1/13/71.

This year, we are celebrating the Centennials of two U.S. First Ladies, Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson.  More about the First Ladies Centennial here.

-from the Nixon Library

Source: research.archives.gov

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