Thelma Ryan was only 13, a freshman at Excelsior Union High School in Artesia, Calif., when her mother Kate, a German immigrant and Christian Scientist from South Dakota, died from liver cancer at 45.

President Donald Trump touted the new ballroom as his “great legacy project.” He said it will cost some $300 million.

On January 20, Melania Trump and Usha Vance will assume the historic roles of first and second ladies of the United States, stepping into positions shaped by centuries of tradition and change. Each ...

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. The Nixon Presidential ...

MRS. NIXON: A Novelist Imagines a Life, by Ann Beattie (Scribner) One of the most poignant parts of Ann Beattie s new work, Mrs. Nixon, is a page at the beginning listing the nicknames of Thelma ...

In the modern era, Patricia Nixon was probably the most private person to ever occupy the White House. Roanoke writer Heath Hardage Lee has put those years into perspective in a keen, brightly written ...

Being a wife was job one for Pat Nixon. “I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband,” she once said. Tagged as “Plastic Pat” for ...

When images of the East Wing demolition began to circulate, Penny Adams looked closely. She noticed the windows of the office where Connie Stuart, the staff director and press secretary for Pat Nixon, ...