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Griffin Daily News
Scolded by Pat
President Nixon keeps
adding wedding guests
By JESSIE STEARNS
Copley News Service
WASHINGTON - President
Nixon is being scolded already
by his womenfolk as the White
House comes alive with plans
for the June 12 wedding of Mr.
and Mrs. Nixon’s older
daughter, Patricia (Tricia) to
Edward Finch Cox, a Harvard
law student.
“My husband, just like any
other man, keeps adding
guests," smiles Mrs. Nixon.
Invitations went out to 400
invited guests — friends of the
Nixon and Cox families and the
engaged couple.
Although Tricia’s wedding
will be the eighth in the White
House, it will be the first in the
Rose Garden, a grassy area
surrounded by annual flowers
and rose bushes.
The altar will be erected at
the west end of the covered
walkway just outside President
Nixon’s oval office and the
Cabinet Room. The stone walk
way is raised five steps above
the Rose Garden lawn, which
should simplify the problem of
constructing the altar.
The guests will enter the East
Wing of the White House and
exit onto the lawn area through
the Jacqueline Kennedy
Garden (which is behind the
collonade between the East
Wing and the Executive
Mansion) and proceed around
the circular driveway into the
Rose Garden.
If it rains, the ceremony will
be performed in the East
Room. The Rev. Edward
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TOGETHER—Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox pose for White
House photographers after officially annonnHng their
engagement on March IS. The couple met in 1963 at the
Chapin School in New York where Tricia was studying.
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Latch, chaplain of the U. S.
House of Representatives and
long-time friend of the Nixon
family, will perform the
ceremony.
The wedding gown is being
made by Priscilla of Boston,
who made the gown of Tricia’s
sister, Julie, who will be her
matron of honor.
She plans to keep the
description of the gown secret
until her wedding day.
“We are considering offering
a portion of the wedding for TV
coverage; we’re considering
everything; we’re hoping to be
as cooperative as possible,”
said Mrs. Nixon’s staff
director, Connie Stuart.
After the ceremony, guests
will wait on the lawn or in the
ground floor area which is
known as the Diplomatic Room
while the official wedding
photographs are taken upstairs
in the Blue Room.
A receiving line will be
formed in the Blue Room and
guests will meet the families.
There will be dancing in the
East Room to the music of Bill
Harrington and his orchestra.
The orchestra played at the
wedding reception of Julie
Nixon and David Eisenhower
at the Plaza Hotel in New York
in 1968. Refreshments will be
served in the State Dining
Room.
The cake cutting will
probably take place in the
Great Hall, the long traverse
hall that runs across the
Executive Mansion.
Mrs. Nixon and Tricia drew
the wedding list from Julie and
FAMILY PORTRAIT—Tricia beams at her dad as the Nixon and the Cox families gather at the
White House. More than 480 guests will attend the June 12 wedding, to be held in the Rose Garden.
David’s wedding, but added
new categories since the
presidency touches on many
areas including the Cabinet
and other high-ranking
government dignitaries.
Five of the seven presidential
daughters who were married in
the White House selected the
East Room for the ceremony
including Alice Roosevelt
Longworth, who will be present
on June 12. The two others —
Maria Hester Monroe, the first,
and Eleanor Randolph Wilson,
the sixth, chose the Blue Room.
The long awaited
engagement announcement
was made by President Nixon
at Pat Nixon’s 59th birthday
party and the “Irish Evening at
the White House" for Irish
Prime Minister and Mrs. John
Lynch on March 16.
The press had speculated on
Mr
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the announcement since
December when Tricia
acquired a sapphire ring with a
diamond on each side. Miss
Nixon wore the size 4Vi ring
(which Eld’s grandfather had
given his grandmother) on
different fingers or not at all to
confuse the press for four
months.
The couple met in 1963 at the
Chapin School’s Christmas
dance in New York. Tricia
graduated from the school a
year later. Ed’s mother, Mrs.
Howard Ellis Cox, and his
sister, Mary Ann, attended
Chapin. Then in 1964 at the
suggestion of Mrs. Cox, Ed
escorted Tricia to the In
ternational Debutante Ball.
Cox is the son of a former
Army Air Force lieutenant
colonel, now a senior partner of
the New York law firm, Cox,
Treanor and Shaughnessy.
Mrs. Cox’s lineage dates back
to early America.
There has been some doubt of
Ed Cox’s politics, but on the
night of the engagement when
asked, Tricia said, “I don’t
think I need to do any
proselytizing.”
Missing the wedding will be
Ens. David Eisenhower, who
will be on his ship, the USS
Albany, a guided missile
cruiser, in the Mediterranean.
The White House mail has
been heavy since the
engagement was announced
from people who want to be
part of the wedding.
Pat Nixon said the offers are
coming chiefly from people
who say they will provide
flowers or music for the
wedding.