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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 i ■■-j ipi l lllUiiiT liii 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. 2 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 SOUTH RISES AGAIN very far south—in Australia. Relics of America’s Civil War surround Adrian L. Pearce, 30, of Sydney, president of the Australian branch of the Confederate Historical Society. The group is small, about 15 members, but intense in its interest in the century-old conflict. 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.