Mrs. Nixon and daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, during President Nixon's farewell, East Room of the White House, August 9, 1974.

As the President spoke, everyone in the East Room felt for his family, and particularly for Mrs. Nixon. I remembered her remark that the hardest time of her political life with her husband had been when he lost his first bid for the presidency in November 1960. I could not help but feel that that day had now been eclipsed.
-FJM