--- title: George W. Bush Recalls Disastrous First Date With Tricia Nixon description: Klutziness, among other things, spoiled George W. Bush's first date with President Richard Nixon's daughter canonical: https://time.com/3578546/george-w-bush-tricia-nixon-date/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-11T17:44:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:21:53.471Z article:section: Politics og:title: George W. Bush Recalls Disastrous First Date With Tricia Nixon og:description: Klutziness, among other things, spoiled George W. 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Paul Demaria—NY Daily News / Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Nov 11, 2014 5:44 PM UTC George W. Bush went on a disastrous first date with the daughter of President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s, according to new details divulged by the former president in a memoir about his father. George H W Bush—then a Texas congressman—arranged for his 22-year-old son, who was then a pilot in the National Guard, to meet Tricia Nixon at a gala in honor of the Apollo 8 spaceflight crew. It all went downhill from there, the _Telegraph_ [reports](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/11223230/George-W-Bushs-disastrous-date-with-President-Richard-Nixons-daughter.html). “During dinner, I reached for some butter, knocked over a glass, and watched in horror as the stain of red wine crept across the table,” Bush writes. “Then I fired up a cigarette, prompting a polite suggestion from Tricia that I not smoke.” The date came to an abrupt end, Bush writes, when Nixon asked to be taken back to the White House “immediately after dinner,” a drive he remembered with a twinge of embarrassment more than thirty years later, when he returned to the White House as the nation’s 43rd president. \[[_Telegrap_ _h_](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/11223230/George-W-Bushs-disastrous-date-with-President-Richard-Nixons-daughter.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3578546/george-w-bush-tricia-nixon-date/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3578546/george-w-bush-tricia-nixon-date/"},"headline":"George W. 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