Reply #13: Maybe Pat and Ann Richards can work on God to get us a couple of.....

[Rowdyboy]

extra house seats! I know it's heresy but I don't give a damn. If anyone could convince God of anything, then Patricia Kennedy and Ann Richards wouldd be the ones...
"Considered the most sophisticated, yet also the most introverted, of all five daughters, Pat since childhood had a fascination with travel and Hollywood. She in time would become a world traveler, so much so that as a young girl she was given assignments by the independent and foreign press to write of her travels. Her ongoing fascination with Hollywood was fueled by her father's stories and adventures there as a movie mogul heading RKO. After graduating from Rosemont College, she moved to Hollywood in hopes of becoming a movie producer and director like her father.

Her father apparently believed that she could do as much, once saying, "Pat is the one with head for business. She could really run this town if she put her mind to it." However, because she was a female in the very conservative 1950s, she was restricted to producing religious programs.

She would meet British actor Peter Lawford through her brother Jack, who had previously run into Lawford at parties. Both young, magnetic, and attractive, they courted quickly and officially announced their engagement in February 1954. They married on April 24, 1954 at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas More in New York City just weeks before her 30th birthday. They decided to settle in Santa Monica, California which was an ideal place for Pat to raise children as well as an easy commute for Peter to Hollywood movie sets and the Las Vegas stage. With the election of her brother as President, she and Peter would become Hollywood royalty.

The couple had four children: Christopher Lawford (b. 1955), Sydney Maleia Lawford (b. 1956), Victoria Francis Lawford (b. 1958), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford (b. 1961). Despite the glamorous personae they presented, their marriage suffered strains early as far back as their engagement. Peter had difficulty adjusting to Pat's steadfast Catholicism and her family's larger-than-life image. Pat could not tolerate Peter's heavy drinking, extra-marital affairs, and his slow addiction to drugs. Shortly after her brother's death, Pat filed for a legal separation and the couple were officially divorced in 1966. In accordance with her religious beliefs she never remarried."