Pat Nixon

==Popular culture impact==
[[File:Pat Nixon reaches out to young girl.jpg|thumb|right|Pat Nixon reaches out from her limousine to a young girl during an October 1972 campaign stop in Atlanta.]]

In 1994, the [[Pat Nixon Park]] was established in [[Cerritos, California]]. The site where her girlhood home stood is on the property.<ref name="PN Biography: Richard Nixon Library"/> The Cerritos City Council voted in April 1996 to erect a statue of the former first lady, one of the few statues created in the image of a first lady.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.cerritos.ca.us/gallery/nixonfact.html|title=Pat Nixon Statue at the Cerritos Senior Center|year=2000|publisher=City of Cerritos|access-date=August 2, 2008|archive-date=August 4, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804193032/http://www.ci.cerritos.ca.us/gallery/nixonfact.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Pat has been portrayed by [[Joan Allen]] in the 1995 film ''[[Nixon (film)|Nixon]]'' (for which Allen earned a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]), [[Patty McCormack]] in the 2008 film ''[[Frost/Nixon (film)|Frost/Nixon]]'' and [[Nicole Sullivan]] in the 2009 film ''[[Black Dynamite]]''. She was sung by soprano [[Carolann Page]] in [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]]' opera ''[[Nixon in China]]'' 1987 world premiere in Houston, Texas; a ''[[New York Times]]'' critic noted that the performance captured "the First Lady's shy mannerisms" while one from the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' described the subject as the "chronically demure First Lady".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/24/arts/opera-nixon-in-china.html|title=Opera: ''Nixon in China''|first=Donal|last=Henahan|author-link=Donal Henahan|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 24, 1987|access-date=September 7, 2017|archive-date=August 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827014611/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/24/arts/opera-nixon-in-china.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1987-10-24/entertainment/ca-3984_1_opera-premiere/2|title=Gala Opera Premiere: John Adams' ''Nixon in China'' in Houston|first=Martin|last=Bernheimer|author-link=Martin Bernheimer|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=October 24, 1987|access-date=June 29, 2017|archive-date=May 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531041826/http://articles.latimes.com/1987-10-24/entertainment/ca-3984_1_opera-premiere/2|url-status=live}}</ref> The part was later sung by Scottish soprano [[Janis Kelly (soprano)|Janis Kelly]] in the 2011 [[Metropolitan Opera]] premiere in New York. This ''New York Times'' critic wrote that Kelly "was wonderful as Pat Nixon. During the affecting Act II scene in which she is guided by Chinese escorts and journalists to a glass factory, a people's commune and a health clinic, she is finally taken to a school. She speaks of coming from a poor family and tells the obliging children that for a while she was a schoolteacher. In Mr. Adams's tender music, as sung by Ms. Kelly, you sense Mrs. Nixon wistfully pondering the much different life she might have had."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/music/04nixon.html|title=President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages|first=Anthony|last=Tommasini|author-link=Anthony Tommasini|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 4, 2011|page=C1|access-date=September 7, 2017|archive-date=August 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827200737/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/music/04nixon.html|url-status=live}}</ref>