Thank you, Bob!  I appreciate your response!

For anyone who wants to learn more about Presidential children, you 
might consider reading a paper, "Political Roles of Presidential 
Children."  This is a Master's Thesis by Tabitha Alissa Warters, a 
Polical Science student at Virginia Tech. See
scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/ 
etd-4898-12119/unrestricted/DOCUMENT1.PDF

Here's her account of Julie Nixon Eisenhower's decision not to attend 
her college graduation with her parents (I've sanitized the profanities 
which are spelled out in Julie's account in the original PDF document):

"Retreating from Smith and Amherst for Julie and David would prove yet 
another
challenge in their young marriage. Neither Julie nor David was able to 
attend their
graduation ceremonies in June of 1970 for safety reasons. As Julie 
recounts,

'Four hundred fifty colleges and universities were now on strike, among 
them
Smith and Amherst, and classes and study were suspended. Several weeks
before graduation, the head of my Secret Service detail had asked if he 
could
talk to David and me. Formally he told us what we already had heard as 
campus
scuttlebutt: if we or my parents or any of David's family attended 
either the
Smith or Amherst graduation at the end of the month, the campus 
organizers
were boasting they could swell protesters ranks to 200,000 people by 
busing
students from the enclave of colleges around Boston and other points in 
the
East. College officials at Smith and Amherst had made it clear to both 
the
Eisenhower family and my Secret Service detail that they could not 
guarantee
our safety at graduation ceremonies. Emotions were running high. The
demonstrators' usual chants were "Hell, no, we won't go," "Peace now,"
"One, two, three, four, we don't want your [expletive deleted] war." 
But recently the
Northhampton Hampshire Gazette had reported that at an antiwar rally 
the crowd
had screamed a new chant, "[Expletive deleted] Julie, [Expletive 
deleted] David"'

(Eisenhower, Julie 290).

Although their college years were tainted because of protests against 
Richard Nixon and
against their own presence on campus, Julie and David remained resolute 
defenders of the
President."

Ms. Warters's thesis also has an interesting account of Mrs. 
Eisenhower's relations with the press.  I doubt most of us could have 
handled as well at the age of 21 or 22 some of what Julie did so 
bravely and resolutely!  It's hard enough to live in a fishbowl but 
when your father is the target of so much vituperation, it must really 
be tough.  The article reminds us of how different the lives of 
Presidential children are from ours, and how this is bound to affect 
how they view their fathers' legacies and records.  (Wouldn't most of 
us be protective of our Dads?)  As I said, something to consider in 
thinking about access to records, the role of Presidential families, 
the effect of the executive order on the PRA, etc.

Maarja


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Thank you Maarja ... excellent response.

Bob Dalton, CRM
Dalton Consulting

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