Patricia Nixon Cox (néeNixon; born February 21, 1946) is the elder daughter of the 37th United States president Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, and the sister of Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
In her father's public career, Cox performed a ceremonial role, in contrast to Julie's more political involvement. She accompanied him on many campaign stops and, after his inauguration, on state trips around the world.
She briefly attended the now-defunct women's college Finch College, then Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. At her graduation on June 14, 1968, her father served as a special guest speaker.[citation needed]
Marriage and professional activities
Tricia Nixon, escorted by her father down the aisle at her wedding to Edward Cox in 1971
In a 2015 interview with Max Foster for CNN regarding an upcoming visit to the United States, Charles, then Prince of Wales, recalled his first visit to the U.S. in 1970 as "the time when they were trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon" who was nearly three years his senior and American.[6] Nixon had represented the U.S. government along with former Vice PresidentHubert H. Humphrey at Charles' investiture in CaernarvonWales one year earlier in July 1969.[7]
^Ambrose, Stephen E. (1988). Nixon: Volume One, The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962 (2 ed.). Simon and Schuster. p. 123. ISBN978-0-671-65722-2. On the twenty-first, she went into Murphy Memorial Hospital and gave birth to a girl. Pat called her Patricia, quickly shortened to "Tricia"
^"Crowds fall for Tricia". Western Mail. (Wales). 2 July 1969. p. 4. "Pretty Tricia Nixon, the 23-year-old daughter of President Richard Nixon, won the hearts of Welsh people yesterday when she arrived for the investiture. Although many people outside Caernarvon station did not recognise the small blonde in the white hat and white-and-green coat she stole the limelight on the station platform..."