Julie Nixon
| Julie Nixon Eisenhower | |
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Nixon Eisenhower in 2010
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| Born |
Julie Nixon July 5, 1948 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Spouse(s) | David Eisenhower (1968–present) |
| Children |
Jennie Elizabeth Eisenhower Alexander Richard Eisenhower Melanie Catherine Eisenhower |
| Parent(s) | Richard and Pat Nixon |
| Relatives |
Tricia Nixon Cox Christopher Nixon Cox Arthur Nixon Donald Nixon Edward Nixon Francis A. Nixon Hannah Milhous Nixon John Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Mamie Eisenhower |
Julie Nixon Eisenhower (born July 5, 1948) is the daughter of Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States. She is the younger sister to Patricia Nixon Cox.
While her father served as President of the United States, she wrote several books and worked as Assistant Managing Editor of The Saturday Evening Post. Since her father left the White House in 1974, she has written additional books and works to support her parents' legacy.
In 1968, she married David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. She is the mother of two daughters, Jennie Eisenhower and Melanie Catherine Eisenhower, and a son, Alexander Richard Eisenhower.
Julie Nixon was born while her father, Richard Nixon, was a Congressman; but much of her childhood coincided with her father's service as Dwight Eisenhower's Vice-President (1953–61). She recalled her father as being romantic, while her mother was "practical and down to earth". Her mother tried to "seal" her and her sister from much of her father's political career. Julie began to cry during a celebration for her father's and President Eisenhower's second inauguration, because she believed it was not fair that the grandchildren of the President could play in the White House while she and her sister could not. After expressing these feelings to Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady invited the two Nixon daughters to play with her grandchildren. Also at the second inauguration, President Eisenhower suggested to her as their photograph was being taken to hide a black eye by turning her head. Julie had acquired it in a sledding accident and turned her head towards David, which made it appear that he had been staring directly at her. Her grandmother Hannah Nixon would come to watch her and her sister whenever her parents traveled. As a child, one of her favorite pets was a cocker spaniel named Checkers, who figured prominently in one of her father's most famous speeches, given in 1952, given during his campaign for Vice-President of the United States.
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