Tricia Nixon Cox

For about 16 hours, behind closed doors in a downtown Miami hotel, they argued, haggled and negotiated. There were lawyers, trustees and two daughters of an American president once so alienated from each other they wouldn't speak. At one point, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, the feuding children of the late Richard Nixon, broke off from the group of more than a dozen others and went off by themselves.

For about 16 hours, behind closed doors in a downtown Miami hotel, they argued, haggled and negotiated. There were lawyers, trustees and two daughters of an American president once so alienated from each other they wouldn't speak. At one point, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, the feuding children of the late Richard Nixon, broke off from the group of more than a dozen others and went off by themselves.

An Orange County probate judge on Friday urged former President Richard M. Nixon's two daughters and the library that bears his name to work out their differences and end a legal fight over how to spend a $20-million bequest. The judge said it would be a mistake for the parties to battle over the bequest and offered to mediate. All sides welcomed the offer.

The daughters of former President Nixon met Tuesday in an attempt to resolve their two-year dispute over how to spend a $20-million bequest for their father's presidential library. No agreement was reached in the daylong, court-ordered meeting, but at midday a longtime friend of the late president was optimistic. "It's hopeful," said Robert Abplanalp, who must decide with Tricia Cox and Julie Eisenhower how the gift is spent.

As the nation heard Richard Nixon eulogized Wednesday, television cameras focused repeatedly during the 85-minute service on the resolute faces of the fallen President's daughters. For what sometimes seemed like anguishing minutes, TV seemed to get closer and closer, painfully close. Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox were the kids parents told their children to be like. Supporters of the Vietnam War viewed them as models of American youth, while opponents heaped them with scorn.

In the eight years since President Richard M. Nixon was laid to rest on a Yorba Linda hillside, his two daughters have been embroiled in a bitter dispute over how best to showcase the legacy of the only man to resign from the U.S. presidency. Now the quiet feud has spilled into open court, as the sisters battle over a $12-million bequest from Nixon's longtime friend, the late Bebe Rebozo. At stake is not just the money, but how Nixon's memory will be preserved.

As the nation heard Richard Nixon eulogized Wednesday, television cameras focused repeatedly during the 85-minute service on the resolute faces of the fallen President's daughters. For what sometimes seemed like anguishing minutes, TV seemed to get closer and closer, painfully close. Julie and Tricia Nixon were the kids parents told their children to be like. Supporters of the Vietnam War viewed them as models of American youth; while opponents heaped them with scorn.

The daughters of former President Nixon met Tuesday in an attempt to resolve their two-year dispute over how to spend a $20-million bequest for their father's presidential library. No agreement was reached in the daylong, court-ordered meeting, but at midday a longtime friend of the late president was optimistic. "It's hopeful," said Robert Abplanalp, who must decide with Tricia Cox and Julie Eisenhower how the gift is spent.

The house where former President Richard Nixon lived the last four years of his life is for sale at an asking price of $995,000. Nixon's two daughters, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox, inherited the four-story, 3,500-square-foot townhouse when Nixon died earlier this year.

A judge in Miami said Thursday that the daughters of the late President Nixon have a duty to settle a legal dispute over how $20 million donated to his presidential library in Yorba Linda is spent. Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, Nixon's longtime friend, left the money to the library foundation when he died in 1998. But Rebozo set up a committee made up of the two sisters--Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower--and another longtime Nixon associate to determine how the bequest would be used.

An Orange County probate judge on Friday urged former President Richard M. Nixon's two daughters and the library that bears his name to work out their differences and end a legal fight over how to spend a $20-million bequest. The judge said it would be a mistake for the parties to battle over the bequest and offered to mediate. All sides welcomed the offer.

In the eight years since President Richard M. Nixon was laid to rest on a Yorba Linda hillside, his two daughters have been embroiled in a bitter dispute over how best to showcase the legacy of the only man to resign from the U.S. presidency. Now the quiet feud has spilled into open court, as the sisters battle over a $12-million bequest from Nixon's longtime friend, the late Bebe Rebozo. At stake is not just the money, but how Nixon's memory will be preserved.

As the nation heard Richard Nixon eulogized Wednesday, television cameras focused repeatedly during the 85-minute service on the resolute faces of the fallen President's daughters. For what sometimes seemed like anguishing minutes, TV seemed to get closer and closer, painfully close. Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox were the kids parents told their children to be like. Supporters of the Vietnam War viewed them as models of American youth, while opponents heaped them with scorn.

As the nation heard Richard Nixon eulogized Wednesday, television cameras focused repeatedly during the 85-minute service on the resolute faces of the fallen President's daughters. For what sometimes seemed like anguishing minutes, TV seemed to get closer and closer, painfully close. Julie and Tricia Nixon were the kids parents told their children to be like. Supporters of the Vietnam War viewed them as models of American youth; while opponents heaped them with scorn.

Leaping into the fray surrounding Oliver Stone's "Nixon," the daughter of Walt Disney said she was ashamed that the company her father created is associated with a movie she labeled a "disturbing distortion of history." The comments by Diane Disney Miller are contained in a letter to Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower. It was released Tuesday, a day after the Nixon family publicly registered complaints about the film, which opens nationally today.