Tricia Nixon Cox

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name = Patricia Nixon Cox


image_size = 225px
caption = Tricia Nixon, escorted by her father down the aisle at her wedding to Edward Cox in 1971.
birth_date = birth date and age|1946|2|21
birth_place = Whittier, California
education = Finch College
occupation =
residence = Manhattan, New York
spouse = Edward F. Cox (1971 - present)
children = Christopher Nixon Cox (b. 1979)
parents = Richard Nixon and Pat Ryan
religion =

Patricia "Tricia" Nixon Cox (born February 21, 1946, in Whittier, California) is the first daughter of the late U.S. president Richard M. Nixon and his wife, Patricia Ryan Nixon.

The opposite of her younger sister, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Cox performed more of a ceremonial role during her father's political career, accompanying him to many campaign stops and, after his presidential inauguration, state trips around the world.

Cox attended Finch College in Manhattan, New York, a since-closed women's college best known as a "finishing school" for affluent young women. At her graduation on June 14, 1968, her father served as a special guest speaker. [http://nixon.archives.gov/find/av/motion_film/main_finding_aid.html]

Cox married Harvard law student Edward Finch Cox in a Rose Garden ceremony on June 12, 1971. The wedding was described in "Life" magazine as "akin to American royalty."

She became a very private citizen and mother, staying home to care for her son, Christopher Nixon Cox, born in March 1979. She lives a quiet life as the wife of a corporate attorney, living just off Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. She serves on the boards of many medical-research institutions, as well as the Nixon Presidential Library and its adjunct, The Nixon Center in Washington, D.C.

Trivia

Pop group Jay and The Americans wrote the political protest song "Tricia (Tell Your Daddy)" to Tricia Nixon, requesting her to tell her father to end the Vietnam War.

Her name is mentioned in the song "Tail O' The Twister" by Chagall Guevara. The song is about a "cool blue redhead" who has "lips like Tricia Nixon".