Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

As part of our celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, we have a added a new video to our ARTIFACTS OF AMERICA playlist on YouTube.

Visit our website to learn about the second episode, featuring this Davison, Newman & Co. replica Revolutionary War era teapot that was gifted to First Lady Pat Nixon.

#OTD 6/18/1974 – Before the American delegation departed Jordan for the Azores, Portugal, First Lady Pat Nixon and Queen Alia Al Hussein visited the roman ruins at the Jerash Archeological Site located about 45km north of Amman, Jordan.

The ancient settlement, earlier known as Gerasa, is among the best preserved Greco-Roman provincial cities in the world. Sadly, in February 1977, Queen Alia died in a helicopter crash. She was 28 years old.

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#OTD 6/17/1974 – President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon visited the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. Here, we see them participating in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance commemorating the Jewish heroes and martyrs killed during World War II. (Image: NAID 194587)

#OTD 6/16/1973 – While President and Mrs. Nixon spent the weekend at their home in Key Biscayne, Florida, preparations were underway at the White House for the upcoming State Dinner in honor of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.

Here we see a White House calligrapher using an oblique pen to hand letter place cards for the dinner.

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#OTD 6/15/1973 – President and Mrs. Nixon traveled to Pekin, Illinois for the dedication ceremony of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center. Senator Dirksen served in the United States Senate from 1951 until his death in September 1969. Prior to the Senate, he served in the United States House of Representatives during the years 1933-1949.

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Tomorrow, June 13, 2026 - 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Join us for our “A250 Conversations: Forgotten Founders” event! Entrance to the event is included in the discounted museum admission of $17.76. Active members of the military (with ID) and children age 4 and under receive free admission.

Happy Anniversary to Tricia and Edward Cox! On June 12, 1971, President and Mrs. Nixon’s daughter Tricia married “Eddie…[her] first and last love” in the first White House Rose Garden wedding.

One year later, the Coxes celebrated their first wedding anniversary over dinner with the President and First Lady on the presidential yacht USS Sequoia.

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#OTD 6/11/1971 - White House Chefs Henry Haller and Heinz Bender, and pastry chef Maurice Bonté of Le Perigord in New York City, worked right up to the deadline putting finishing touches on Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox’s monumental six-tier wedding cake that stood 6’ 10" in height.

The top tier featured a miniature gazebo modeled after the one the couple exchanged their vows under in the White House Rose Garden the following day. The actual gazebo is now in the garden here at the Nixon Library.

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#OTD 6/10/1972 – Tricia Nixon Cox attended the dedication of the Ozark National Scenic Riverway at Big Spring near Van Buren, Missouri, as part of the National Park Service. She spoke to the crowd and was given a boat tour. (Image: WHPO-9343-19)

#OTD 6/9/1971 – President Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower spent time with family dogs King Timahoe, Pasha, and Vicki on the White House south grounds before departing for dinner on the presidential yacht Sequoia. (Images: WHPO-6522-08A and 09A)