Patricia Hitt
Patricia Reilly Hitt (January 24, 1918 – January 9, 2006)[1][2] was the under President Richard Nixon.
In 1972, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree from Whittier College.[3]
She died of natural causes on January 9, 2006, at her home in Balboa Island. Hitt was 87 years old.[4] It was noted that she had died on the date that would have been the late president's 93rd birthday. She was the highest-ranking woman in Nixon's first administration.[5]
References[]
- ^ A Matter of Simple Justice
- ^ United States Social Security Death Index: Patricia Reilly Hitt
- ^ "Honorary Degrees | Whittier College". www.whittier.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ^ "Patricia Hitt, 87, Longtime Nixon Supporter". New York Times. January 17, 2006. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
- ^ Thurber, Jon (January 13, 2006). "Patricia Hitt, 87; Served Under Nixon, Worked on His Campaigns". Los Angeles Times.
External links[]
- Patricia Hitt at her Villa Park home, 1964, in the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Categories:
- 1918 births
- 2006 deaths