We all know the public facts, the landmarks of Richard Nixon's long political career, but only Julie Nixon Eisenhower could show us the vital and less-well-known role Pat played in the Nixon story: 1952 The Campaign Fund Speech-Despite the fact that the public questioning of her husband's integrity, and therefore her own, was so painful that she can barely discuss the incident today, it was Pat who urged him to do what he had to do even though it meant disclosing their personal finances. This country's political history since World War II is the backdrop for the enthralling story of a self-made, strong, independent woman the dual portrait of a remarkable marriage and finally an eyewitness report on life within the family quarters of the White House by someone who grew up there. After graduating with honors she accepted a position teaching high school in Whittier, were, one evening when she went to try out for the local little theater, she met a young lawyer named Richard Nixon. Fiercely independent, she enjoyed herself enormously in New York but finally there was enough money for her to return to California and college where she carried a full course load as well as juggling several jobs (including the one that was the most fun, as a movie extra).
While still in her teens, in the depths of the Depression, she got herself work: first driving a car all the way across the country on her own then, in New York, where she found a job in the dispensary of a tuberculosis hospital. Born in a miner's shack in Nevada in the dead of winter, she was orphaned before she was out of high school and left with the care of two brothers, the house and the family truck farm. Even had she not become First Lady, Pat Nixon's story would have been fascinating. Here, at last, is the real, the untold story of an intensely private woman who has been in the spotlight for nearly forty years, told-as it could only have been-by her daughter Julie. SYNOPSIS: She is instantly recognizable anywhere in the world, but very few people have ever known what goes on behind her elegant and attractive public face. "A Shoulder to Everyone-But Whose Shoulder Does She Lean On?" 30. "Iron and Courage, Not Skin and Bones" 18. "No One Is Going to Push Us off the Ticket" 16. "You Run Until You Can't Run Anymore" 11. "To the Beautiful Teacher Who Wore a Red Geranium in Her Hair" 6. BACK JACKET PHOTOGRAPH BY: Author's Collection. FRONT JACKET PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bettmann Newsphotos. DESIGNED BY: Anne Scatto/Levavi & Levavi. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased Lightly Chipped In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK: Boards Bumped Light Shelf Rub to Boards Edges Moderately Soiled. New York: Simon and Schuster A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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