Pat Nixon/wife of The Vice President 1953-1961

Famous quotes containing the words pat, nixon, wife, vice and/or president:

    Helen, Helen,
    the kitchen is your dog
    and you pat it
    and love it
    and keep it clean.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.
    —Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)

    Alexander Woollcott broadcasts the story of the wife who returned a dog to the Seeing Eye with this note attached: “I am sending the dog back. My husband used to depend on me. Now he is independent, and I never know where he is.”
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school and requires a cruel share of time, and the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet, sore with suspicions; knows as much vice as the judge of a police court, and his love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
    Nancy Reagan (b. 1923)