Mrlonelyone Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 (edited) Can you see this working out today? While in Whittier, Pat Ryan met a young lawyer fresh out of Duke University law school, Richard Milhous Nixon. The two became acquainted at a Little Theater group when they were cast together in The Dark Tower.[/url] Ok, so far that's what people still do. Known as Dick, he asked Pat Ryan to marry him the first night they went out. "I thought he was nuts or something!" she recalled. He courted the redhead he called his "wild Irish Gypsy" for two years, even driving her to and from her dates with other men. Wow Tricky Dick Nixon. . . . driving a woman to other men. We're talking 27 and 28 year old people so sex is what's possibly going to happen. The driving her from dates with other men, hard to imagine that happening now. Eventually they married at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California on June 21, 1940. She said that she had been attracted to the young Nixon because he "was going places, he was vital and ambitious ... he was always doing things". Later, referring to Richard Nixon, she said, "Oh but you just don’t realize how much fun he is! What's the take away message, money and humor can conqueror all? Edited June 2, 2013 by a LoveShack.org Moderator
daisybuchanan55 Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 Yeah, pretty much. A guy with a great sense of humor and money? Sign me up!
jma500 Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 In their social circle yeah money would be necessary. Regular women from normal social circles, not so much but a sense of humor is important. I find it hard to believe tricky dick had a sense of humor.
Author Mrlonelyone Posted June 2, 2013 Author Posted June 2, 2013 In their social circle yeah money would be necessary. Regular women from normal social circles, not so much but a sense of humor is important. I find it hard to believe tricky dick had a sense of humor. Well they weren't "rich" but money has to always be a help. Nixon seems to have broken every rule which we now think of as timeless and "evolutionary" and such... yet he got the woman he wanted and was married to her for 53 years until his death. (To those who are 19 20 25 ish, and are talking like it's the end of the world, note They were in their late 20's close to 30 when that finally happened).
joystickd Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 There is a lot more ego now with men and women. Just bring up multidating and women have a fit. I think at that time they did it but the sexual element was taken out and men and women got to know each other. They were able to figure out which person would be more compatible with them. Now it's like so much ego and competition that you have to just about take them off the market just to get to know them.
Author Mrlonelyone Posted June 2, 2013 Author Posted June 2, 2013 There is a lot more ego now with men and women. Just bring up multidating and women have a fit. I think at that time they did it but the sexual element was taken out and men and women got to know each other. They were able to figure out which person would be more compatible with them. Now it's like so much ego and competition that you have to just about take them off the market just to get to know them. According to my parents and older relatives it's not that they did not multidate and have sex too , especially at the age range of the Nixons (late 20's early 30's ish). They just didn't talk about it back then. I feel what you are saying now. It's like some people need to treat every fleeting relationship like a marriage before they will let their guard down.
joystickd Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 According to my parents and older relatives it's not that they did not multidate and have sex too , especially at the age range of the Nixons (late 20's early 30's ish). They just didn't talk about it back then. I feel what you are saying now. It's like some people need to treat every fleeting relationship like a marriage before they will let their guard down. I think men and women caught on the BS and games we play on each other now too. I also say people were more consistent back then and had less ego. Even a subject like waiting for sex strikes a nerve because when women now talk it comes off as it's about me thing. 1
xxoo Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 I don't think their story was typical even then. Especially since it was notable in the Wikipedia entry, it seems to suggest that was atypical behavior on Nixon's part. Pat was a very ambitious, hard working young woman. She wanted the best for herself. Nixon probably had to prove himself worthy! Of course, the article doesn't mention how many women he bedded during those interim years....
Author Mrlonelyone Posted June 2, 2013 Author Posted June 2, 2013 I don't think their story was typical even then. Especially since it was notable in the Wikipedia entry, it seems to suggest that was atypical behavior on Nixon's part. Pat was a very ambitious, hard working young woman. She wanted the best for herself. Nixon probably had to prove himself worthy! Of course, the article doesn't mention how many women he bedded during those interim years.... True that. I'm sure he wasn't called Tricky Dick and "Slick Rick" just because of politics.
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