In her father's public career, Cox performed a ceremonial role, in contrast to Julie's more political involvement.

[citation needed] In 1968, future president George W. Bush took Nixon on a date arranged by his father.

[6] Tricia Nixon married Harvard Law student Edward F. Cox in a White House Rose Garden ceremony on June 12, 1971.

[8] Nixon had represented the U.S. government along with former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at Charles' investiture in Caernarvon Wales one year earlier in July 1969.

[9] She has lived a very private life in the suburbs of New York, and was a stay-at-home mother to her son,[citation needed] Christopher Nixon Cox, born in March 1979.