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{{Short description|Daughter of Richard Nixon}}
{{Infobox person
| image       = Nixon Contact Sheet WHPO-D1055 (cropped1).jpg
| image_size  = 225px
| caption     = Tricia Nixon Cox in 1972
| birth_name  = Patricia Nixon
| alias       = Sugarfoot (Secret Service codename)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dean|first1=John|title=Blind Ambition The White House Years|url=https://archive.org/details/blindambitionwhi00dean|url-access=registration|date=1976|publisher=Simon and Schuster|location=New York, New York|isbn=0671224387|page=[https://archive.org/details/blindambitionwhi00dean/page/161 161]}}</ref>
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1946|2|21}}
| birth_place = [[Whittier, California]], U.S.
| education   = [[Boston College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| occupation  =
| spouse      = {{marriage|[[Edward F. Cox]]|June 12, 1971}}
| children    = [[Christopher Nixon Cox]]
| parents     = {{plain list|
* [[Richard Nixon]]
* [[Pat Nixon]]
}}
}}
'''Patricia Nixon Cox''' (born February 21, 1946) is the elder daughter of the 37th United States president [[Richard Nixon]] and First Lady [[Pat Nixon]], and the sister of [[Julie Nixon Eisenhower]].

She is married to [[Edward F. Cox]] and is the mother of [[Christopher Nixon Cox]].

In her father's public career, Cox performed a ceremonial role, in contrast to Julie's more political involvement. She accompanied him on many campaign stops and, after his inauguration, on state trips around the world.

==Early life==
Nixon was born on February 21, 1946, at Murphy Memorial Hospital in [[Whittier, California]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ambrose|first=Stephen E.|title=Nixon: Volume One, The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962|date=1988 |edition=2|publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-671-65722-2|language=en  |page=123 |quote=On the twenty-first, she went into Murphy Memorial Hospital and gave birth to a girl. Pat called her Patricia, quickly shortened to "Tricia"}}</ref> She grew up in Washington, D.C., attending Horace Mann Elementary and the [[Sidwell Friends School]]. Later she attended the [[Chapin School]] in [[Manhattan]].<ref name=apc260>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/allpresidentschi00wead |url-access=registration |title=All the Presidents' Children |year=2003 |publisher=[[Atria Books]] |author=Doug Wead |author-link=Doug Wead |page=[https://archive.org/details/allpresidentschi00wead/page/260 260] |isbn=0743446313}}</ref>

In 1964, she was presented as a debutante to high society at the [[International Debutante Ball]] at the [[Waldorf Astoria New York|Waldorf-Astoria Hotel]] in New York City. Edward Cox was her civilian escort at the ball.<ref>{{cite web|last1=((Editors))|first1=Rolling Stone|title=The Making of the President's Daughter|date=24 June 1971 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-making-of-the-presidents-daughter-19710624|publisher=Rolling Stone|access-date=29 December 2017}}</ref>

She briefly attended the now-defunct women's college [[Finch College]], then [[Boston College]] in Boston, [[Massachusetts]], graduating in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. At her graduation on June 14, 1968, her father served as a special guest speaker.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} In 1968, future president [[George W. Bush]] took Nixon on a date arranged by [[George H. W. Bush|his father]]. After Bush spilled wine and tried to smoke a cigarette, Nixon requested to be taken back to the White House.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kedmey |first=Dan |date=2014-11-11 |title=George W. Bush Once Dated Nixon's Daughter, And It Did Not Go Well |url=https://time.com/3578546/george-w-bush-tricia-nixon-date/ |access-date=2024-07-12 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}</ref>

In 1969, she hosted a Halloween party for 250 children at the White House.  Actor [[Jonathan Frid]] who played [[Barnabas Collins]] in the [[Dark Shadows]] show was in attendance.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2021/10/26/spotlight-tricia-nixons-1969-halloween-party/ |title=Spotlight: Tricia Nixon’s 1969 Halloween Party |website=unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov |date=2021-10-26 |access-date=2024-10-22}}</ref>

==Marriage and professional activities==
[[File:Nixon with daughter Tricia marriage 1971.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Tricia Nixon, escorted by her father down the aisle at her wedding to Edward Cox in 1971]]
Tricia Nixon married [[Harvard Law School|Harvard Law]] student [[Edward F. Cox]] in a [[White House Rose Garden]] ceremony on June 12, 1971.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/Audio/Events-of-1971 |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref>

In a 2015 interview with Max Foster for CNN regarding an upcoming visit to the United States, [[Charles III|Charles, then Prince of Wales]], recalled his first visit to the U.S. in 1970 as "the time when they were trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon" who was nearly three years his senior and American.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/03/11/pkg-foster-uk-charles-camilla-2.cnn-ap | title=Prince Charles & Tricia Nixon: The match that almost was &#124; CNN | website=[[CNN]] | date=11 March 2015 }}</ref> Nixon had represented the U.S. government along with former [[Vice President]] [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] at [[Investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales|Charles' investiture]] in [[Caernarfon|Caernarvon]] [[Wales]] one year earlier in July 1969.<ref name="WM Tricia">{{cite news|title=Crowds fall for Tricia |work=[[Western Mail (Wales)|Western Mail]] |place=(Wales) |page=4 |date=2 July 1969 }} "Pretty Tricia Nixon, the 23-year-old daughter of President Richard Nixon, won the hearts of Welsh people yesterday when she arrived for the investiture. Although many people outside Caernarvon station did not recognise the small blonde in the white hat and white-and-green coat she stole the limelight on the station platform..."</ref>

She has lived a very private life in the suburbs of New York, and was a stay-at-home mother to her son,{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} Christopher Nixon Cox, born in March 1979.<ref name=apc260 /> Her husband is now a [[Lawyer|corporate attorney]] and a chairman of the [[New York Republican State Committee]]. She serves on the boards of many medical research institutions,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,235543,00.html|publisher=Time Magazine|date=May 6, 2002|title=Nixon Daughters Bury the Hatchet}}</ref> as well as the [[Richard Nixon Foundation]] at the [[Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum|Nixon Library]] in California.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/05/who-owns-richard-nixon.html|magazine=The New Yorker|date=May 20, 2014|title=Who Owns Richard Nixon?}}</ref>

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