First Lady Pat Nixon warmly welcomed two pandas to the National Zoo in Washington, DC. A symbolic gift from the People’s Republic of China, the pandas captivated the nation, marking a pivotal moment ...

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U.S. President Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon are seen as they visit the tombs of Chinese emperors of the Ming Dynasty, in the suburbs of China’s capital of Beijing, Feb. 24, 1972.

Hampson was a high school senior in Spangle, Washington, when Nixon made the seven-day trip to China in 1972, the first visit by an American president following the 1949 communist revolution.

In 1972, first lady Pat Nixon mentioned to the Chinese premier that she thought pandas were cute, and as a gesture of goodwill following President Richard Nixon’s state visit to China, Zhou ...

First Lady Pat Nixon with Michael Newsome, Muscular Dystrophy Poster Child of the Year in October 1972 ... 36,000 Preschools Shut Down in China in Sign of Total Doom. by Ellie Gardey Holmes.

First Lady Pat Nixon once said, “People are my project.” Those simple words and their call to action continued to be celebrated on what would have been Nixon’s 113th birthday.

In “The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon,” the historian Heath Hardage Lee tries to give the oft-maligned “Plastic Pat” her due. By Amy S. Greenberg Amy S. Greenberg is the head of the history ...