TY - BOOK AU - Swift,Will TI - Pat and Dick: the Nixons, an intimate portrait of a marriage SN - 9781451676945 (hardcover) AV - E856 .S95 2014 U1 - 973.924092/2B 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Threshold Editions KW - Nixon, Richard M. KW - Nixon, Pat, KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Presidents' spouses KW - Married people N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-447) and index; Part I. An ambitious young couple -- "Will you think of me sometimes?" -- Going places -- Married, happily -- Love after Pearl Harbor -- Giant slayers -- The faces of America's future -- Crises on the homefront -- Safeguarding the American home -- Part II. Cultural leaders and private citizens -- "Heroes" and "housewives": Dick, Ike, Pat and Mamie -- A turbulent ascent -- Enduring defeat -- Darkness -- Your turn, my turn -- Part III. White House dreams and nightmares -- Adjusting to the White House fortress -- "We had held our own" -- A private marriage in the public spotlight -- Love in the White House -- The zenith -- Falling apart -- Part IV. Affliction and recovery -- Renewal in exile -- A peaceful twilight -- Epilogue ER -