richard nixon's letters to pat are really poetic and very deeply touching. on his first date, he proposed to her. he said he fell in love with her. at first sight and you can see this is the letter he wrote afterwards. they met. they were they met in a amateur, dramatic present tation. they were both in a play together. okay. he wrote to her, and this is sometime in 1938. and he was then a 25 year old lawyer. patricia, somehow on tuesday, there was something electric in the usually almost stifling air in whittier, california. that is. and now i know an irish gypsy who radiates all that is happy and beautiful. was there. she left behind her a note addressed to a struggling barrister who looks from a window and dreams. and in that note he found sunshine and flowers and a great spirit which only great ladies can inspire. he knew then why he felt so many fine things for this girl. he had learned to know and though he is a prosaic person, his heart was filled with that grandpa poetic music which makes us wish for those we love the realization of great dreams, of