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Happy Anniversary to Tricia and Edward Cox on this their 50th wedding anniversary! We wish them many more years of happiness and love. On this day in 1971, Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox were married in the first ever Rose Garden wedding ceremony. Learn more!
#Nixon50 #OTD 4/17/1970 Johnny Cash performed at an "Evening at the White House" supported by wife June Carter Cash, the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers, the Tennessee Three, and Carl Perkins. President Nixon was reportedly especially upbeat following the successful conclusion of the Apollo 13 mission. (Image: WHPO-3366-09)
#Nixon50 #FabulousFLOTUSFriday #OTD 3/6/1970 First Lady Pat Nixon returning from a five states in five days college tour. Mrs. Nixon was greeted at the White House by daughter Tricia, family dogs Pasha and Vicki, and handler Traphes Bryant who cared for the dogs of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon until his retirement in 1971. (Image: WHPO-3101-18)
#Nixon50 #OTD 3/5/1970 President Nixon meeting with top level African American administration appointees from the Departments of State, Agriculture, Justice, Transportation, Housing, Labor, Interior, and more. (Image: WHPO-3077-03A)
#Nixon50 #OTD 3/2/1970 President Nixon met representatives and staff from the Future Farmers of America who were in Washington, DC on their 23rd Annual Goodwill Tour. (Image: WHPO-3055-08)
"IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER" speech draft (aka "Safire Memo") was written by White House speechwriter William Safire on this date 7/18/1969 One of the most popular docs in our collections is in the National Archives catalog online: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6922351
#Nixon50 #OTD 2/5/1970 President and Mrs. Nixon attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast. To the best of our knowledge, every U.S. President since Eisenhower has attended. If the exterior wall in the photo of the Nixons leaving the Washington Hilton seems familiar, it is because it is the same spot where President Ronald Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981. (Images: WHPO-2905-08 & 11)
#Nixon50 #OTD 3/12/1970 President Nixon received the Project HOPE award in memory of President Dwight D. Eisenhower from the founder of Project HOPE, Dr. William B. Walsh. In 1958, President Eisenhower ensured Dr. Walsh could lease a retired Navy medical ship for $1 per year. The ship was refitted and christened the SS HOPE. In the past 60 years, Project HOPE has provided medical care to millions of people in over 100 countries. (Image: WHPO-3140-10A)
