Real Richard Nixon: PAT (1) - Love at First Sight & Dating

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The Real Richard Nixon
Vol. 2: "Pat"
Interview with Frank Gannon

In this interview/documentary segment, President Richard Nixon discusses his first meeting and subsequent courtship of his future wife Pat Nixon. He mentions the uncharacteristic way he first asked her for a date on the night they first met (by telling her he was going to marry her some day).

The video clip comes from 38 hours of interviews that Nixon did with Frank Gannon in 1983 during eight days of interviews spread out over several months. Gannon used to work for Nixon and was well acquainted with the former president. Subsequently, Nixon is more at ease and open here than in most of his recorded interviews.

Originally there here had been no clear intention to create a documentary on Pat Nixon when the interviews took place. The segments on Pat came from different days, originally interspersed among a variety of topics.

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[TwilightLink37]

This might sound stupid, but I wonder if Pat ever saw this. I hope she did, because what Nixon said at 00:20 was sweet :)

[militaryhistorian67]

What a great American

[MangyFatOwl]

I was raised to believe Nixon was evil, a liar, awful man. Not even from my parents, more from the way the media portrays him, Hollywood included and school as well. I'm just now, at 30 years old starting to figure this topic out for myself, what I've found so far is that Nixon was a great man that made some mistakes like all men do, only difference is he got caught.

[peacefrog0521]

If I had to sit and talk for 38 hours, I think I'd do it on a couch in my sweatpants & socks.

[AllenbysEyes]

Nixon's love for his wife and daughters is really sweet. As awkward and flawed a man he was, he seems to have been a devoted husband and father.

[FusionHoldings]

A great, flawed, but ultimately great man. Sometime right, sometimes wrong but always a great leader. No one lifes a faultless life and this was true of Richard Nixon but as a man he inspires me! God Bless Nixon and may he rest with the greatest of men!

[omid145]

@TwilightLink37 Yes, she would have seen it. This was from 1983, she died in 1993.

[Greg111076]

@drf38z I think he had social anxiety, or SA. LOTS of people are afflicted with it. Myself included, so I can empathize. In Nixons case, having such a high profile, with every move scrutinized, (and this has to be admitted) often with open hositlity. The media cannot deny that they harbored more dislike for this man than almost any other American politician. How else can one explain all the unkind ad hominem attacks on his person? He's more likeable, in that he cared what we thought of him.

[ariesone25]

Real Love!

[lukafafrenz]

@Ulysses61 oh, stop being so cynical -- all that money was used to buy 24 000 cocker spaniels!