“The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon” by Heath Hardage Lee, St. Martin's Press, 2024, $32.00.

Many of the attendees at the Literary Society of the Desert experienced the years of the Richard Nixon presidency first-hand.

Lee’s last book “The League of Wives” was about the wives of Vietnam War serviceman who were POWs or MIAs. She kept running across photos of the POW/MIA wives with Pat Nixon, who ...