Julie Nixon Eisenhower

At 76 years old, Julie Nixon Eisenhower has this physical status:

Julie Nixon Eisenhower (born July 5, 1948) is an American author who is the younger daughter of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, and Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States, and grandson of President Eisenhower. Born in Washington, D.C.

Julie and her elder sister, Patricia Nixon Cox, grew up in the public eye while her father, Senator John Kerry, rose to the top of the charts.

Her father was elected president of the United States in 1964. Senator Janeta de Grass, a California girl who was two years old and Vice President of the United States when she was four.

Her 1968 marriage to David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was seen as a union between two of the country's most influential political families. Julie served as Assistant Managing Editor of The Saturday Evening Post from 1969 to 1974, while holding the informal name of "First Daughter." During the Nixon administration, she was widely recognized as one of her father's most vocal and influential defenders.

By readers of Good Housekeeping magazine in the 1970s, Eisenhower was named one of the "Most Admired Women in America" for four years.

Pat Nixon, the New York Times best-seller, wrote a biography of her mother after her father resigned in disgrace from the White House in 1974.

She continues to work in jobs that promote her parents' ancestors. Jennie Eisenhower and Melanie Catherine Eisenhower's mother, as well as her son, Alexander Richard Eisenhower, are among Jennie Eisenhower and Melanie Catherine Eisenhower.

Early life

Julie Nixon was born at Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C., although her father, Richard Nixon, was a congressman, but much of her childhood was linked to her father's aspirations as the Dwight Eisenhower vice president (1953–61). Her mother was "practical and down to earth" when she remembered her father as romantic, although her father was recalled as romantic. Her mother attempted to "seal" her and her sister from a large portion of her father's political career. President Eisenhower suggested to eight-year-old Julie when their photograph was being taken to hide a black eye (which she had acquired in a sledding crash) by turning her head at her second inauguration. She dipped her head at David, implying he had been staring straight at her. When her parents moved, Hannah Nixon's grandmother would come to watch her and her sister. Checkers, a cocker spaniel who appeared prominently in one of her father's most popular speeches during his 1952 bid for Vice President of the United States, was one of her favorite pets as a child.

She and her sister, Tricia, attended the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington during the Vice President's reign as Vice President. Julie was "battered" by the results and believed that the votes had "been stolen" after her father lost the presidential election of 1960 to John F. Kennedy.

The family returned to California, where her father unsuccessfully ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1962 after her father lost his presidential bid in 1960. Following the gubernatorial run, the Nixons then migrated to New York, and Julie attended Smith College following her graduate from Chapin School. In 1971, she earned a master's degree in education from The Catholic University of America. When she was at Smith, David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, attended Amherst College nearby. Both Julie and David were invited to address the Hadley Republican Women's Club. The club learned that the two were only seven miles apart and had invited them to be featured speakers. Both of them discussed the invitations but decided not to return to Julie when David visited her and a friend from Amherst and took her and a friend out to get some ice cream. "I was broke, and my roommate forgot his wallet," David explained. The girls were paid."

Life after the White House

Julie and David stayed in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, where she wrote several books, including Pat Nixon: The Untold Story and Going Home to Glory, along with her husband David Eisenhower. She has a long tradition of community service and a special passion for young people at risk. She served on the board of directors for Jobs for America's Graduates, a national charity that supports young people in high school and transition to first jobs in over twenty years. For her civic contributions, she was named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania. She is an active member of the Richard Nixon Foundation and sits on the board of directors. She served as Chair of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships, a national youth scholarship program aimed at cultivating leadership in the country's most exceptional young adults from 2002 to 2006.

When she died of lung cancer on June 22, 1993, she and her mother, along with her sister and father, were with her mother. She attended her mother's funeral service on the grounds of the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda four days later, on June 26, 1993. She was by her father's bedside with her sister when he died ten months later. Julie was at the funeral on April 27, 1994. Among other items, her father's death left her and her sister with his diary entries, binders, and tapes.

She has voiced dissatisfaction with a few presidencies' adaptations, describing them as giving young viewers a "twisted sense of history." This was a sequel to Oliver Stone's film Nixon, which was an extension of her father's presidency. Diane Disney Miller, Walt Disney's niece, wrote to Julie and her sister, saying that Stone had "committed a grave disrespect to your family, to your Presidency, and to American history."

On April 14, 1999, the Justice Department began to block her from appearing in court to determine whether the government would compensate his father's thousands of dollars allocated for his Presidential Library in exchange for papers and tapes confiscated after he resigned.

She expressed interest in exhuming Checkers' body, a dog attributed to her father's service when he ran for vice president in 1964. Her aim was to move the bodies to the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

Bebe Rebozo's estimated "as-high-as" $19 million, which was left by Richard Nixon's Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation, brought her and her sister into court for the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation. Julie wanted the money to be managed by a group associated with their families, rather than Tricia's desire for it to be managed by a party associated with their relatives, but the library's board wanted it to be governed by the library's board. "I think it's very sad because I love my sister so much," Julie reflected about the marital strain during the conflict. The case was eventually settled to both sides' delight.

One of Eisenhower's fondest wishes was for the Nixon Library to join the National Archives-administered Presidential Library System:

The Nixon Library joined the National Archives system in July 2007, owing in large part to Julie Eisenhower's advocacy.

In spite of her family's tradition of supporting Republicans, Julie donated $2,300 to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary election against Hillary Clinton. In 2012, she endorsed Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee against President Obama and Donald Trump, as well as Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.

She and her sister arrived in Yorba Linda on March 16, 2012, to celebrate what would have been their mother's 100th birthday. Eisenhower and her husband opened a holiday exhibit for the Nixon Library on November 23, 2013, which stayed on display until January 5, 2014.

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