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#OTD 6/12/1971 About three hours after the marriage ceremony, the newlyweds departed the White House for their honeymoon as the band played "Toot Toot, Tootsie" and the guests threw rice and rose petals. We wish Tricia and Edward Cox many more years of happiness! (WHPO-6601-34)pic.twitter.com/TiyBCrlZuq

#OTD 6/12/1971 The bride wore a gown by Priscilla of Boston, who also designed wedding dresses for sister Julie and President Johnson's daughter Luci, as well as Tricia's bridesmaids' dresses and Mrs. Nixon's floral applique dress. (Images: WHPO-6682-03; 6589-12)pic.twitter.com/aziWX6bQHH

#OTD 6/12/1971 Tricia Nixon (& groom @ChairmanEdCox whom she described as her "first and last love") carried bouquet of lily of the valley, white sweetheart roses, baby's breath and baker fern. Lily of the valley traditionally symbolizes happiness & luck in love. (WHPO-6569-30A)pic.twitter.com/D8ktwSwbWN

#OTD 6/12/1971 President Nixon, wearing formal morning dress, walked daughter Tricia down the aisle in the FIRST White House Rose Garden wedding. (Image: WHPO-6579-09)pic.twitter.com/PWJPd19dZK

#DeepThoughtsFromBears Does a diet of 99% bamboo count as carb loading?pic.twitter.com/bgfeTiGRG4

1/2 #OTD 6/11/1971 White House Chefs Henry Haller and Heinz Bender, and pastry chef Maurice Bonté of Le Perigord in NYC worked right up to the deadline putting finishing touches on Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox's monumental wedding cake. (Image: WHPO-6548)pic.twitter.com/0cnHLBv1TW

Should we ever get invited to Camp David (hey, we can dream, right?) we are having an #ArchivesPoolParty regardless of the season. #ArchivesHashtagParty (Image: WHPO-5615-10)pic.twitter.com/4eRDfzS4ZH

#ArchivesPoolParty How did one change the light bulbs above the old White House indoor pool? Very, very careful. With ladders & a couple of friends. Mural of Christiansted Harbor, St. Croix, VI, by Bernard Lamotte. Pool was removed to create WH Press Briefing Room (WHPO-1127-07)pic.twitter.com/UzHAeqZiIZ

#ArchivesPoolParty Few things are more glamorous than partying poolside with the fabulous Gabor Sisters Zsa Zsa and Eva, at the Western White House, La Casa Pacifica, in San Clemente, CA on 8/27/1972. (Image: WHPO-D0236-02A) #ArchivesHashtagPartypic.twitter.com/I0tqiDNK2t

#OTD #Nixon50 6/7/1969 President Nixon stopped off in Honolulu, Hawaii en route to his meeting with the President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu, at Midway Island in the North Pacific Ocean. (Image: WHPO-1263-14)pic.twitter.com/k69fzYt2Fb

#technologyfail This failed to show up yesterday so let's just call it a #FabulousFLOTUSFriday tweet. #OTD 6/6/73 Pat Nixon & @mssociety Father of the Year, H. Ridge Canaday & his wife Florence. First diagnosed w/ #MultipleSclerosis in 1966 while training as @USNavy pilot. 1/2pic.twitter.com/CsIpbpZqWf

#OTD 6/5/1973 President and Mrs. Nixon hosted a White House State Dinner for Liberian President Dr. William R. Tolbert, Jr. and First Lady Victoria Anna David-Tolbert. Shown here with singer @johnnymathis who performed that night. (Image: WHPO-E0932-32A)pic.twitter.com/lrqcGEfj5l

#NationalCheeseDay MORE CHEESE, PLEASE!!! Here's a Nixon White House recipe as given to Julie Nixon Eisenhower for an Easy Cheese Souffle, which is really more of a savory, cheesy bread pudding. If only we'd planned ahead & made some for work today! *shakes fists in anguishpic.twitter.com/agz7twdpxA

#OTD 6/4/1953 "Hi, Kitty." said a cautious Vice President Richard Nixon. "'He's a nice animal, a nice big cat.'" As the initiation "fall guy", RN met 18-yr-old lion Sheba during annual Saints & Sinners luncheon & charity roast at Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. (NAID 16916200)pic.twitter.com/xbgjwuvplw