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| | Patricia Nixon, Wife of Former President, Dies at 81 |
 | | Patricia Ryan Nixon, the poised, gracious "perfect political wife" through the roller-coaster rises and disgraceful fall of former President Nixon's turbulent career, died Tuesday at their home in Park Ridge, N.J. She was 81. |
 | | Nixon, a heavy smoker although she never permitted herself to be seen smoking in public, died of lung cancer. |
 | | Nixon's last public appearances was in Yorba Linda, Calif., on July 19, 1990, for the dedication of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, and at a dinner that night for 1,600 friends at Los Angeles' Century Plaza Hotel. |
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