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First Families
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Every President has a family. Here is a recap of all the Presidential families of my lifetime.
2001: George W. & Laura Bush
Two daughters: Jenna and Barbara
fraternal twins
the basis of this site!
Age 19 upon start of Bush's 2000 term.
1993: George & Hillary Clinton
One daughter: Chelsea Clinton
Was in the spotlight at first, but then all media was quiet
Rumors of government agencies shutting down Chelsea websites (Freedom Forum)
Chelsea was on the cover of People
Went to Stanford
Chelsea was the first child to live in the White House since Amy Carter
Age 12 when Bill took office
She entered as a awkward preteen, but left the White House as a confident, stylish woman
Chelsea in Viet Nam
1989: George & Barbara Bush
Six Children George, Robin, John (aka Jeb), Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy.
George W. is now President!
Jeb is the governor of Flordia
Neil is the CEO of an educational software company. In 1988 he was a big player in the S&L scandal.
Marvin is a finacial consultant
and Dorthy is a homemaker
1981: Rondald & Nancy Reagan
One daughter and one son: Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott
From Ronald's first marriage, he had another set of children: Maureen and Michael.
Reagan's main talent always was acting not parenting!
Patti posed in Playboy in 1994
Patti wrote The Way I See It which dis'ed her parents
Michael also wrote a book about his youthful troubles: On the Outsite looking In
Ronny Jr did some Saturday Night Live skits in his underwear
Ronny is married in Seattle to Doria
1977: Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter
Three sons and one daughter: Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy
The media had a field day with Amy!
Amy was age 9 when Jimmy took office.
Amy hung out in the White House and saw first hand how the US government is run.
Amy was arrested thrice during anti-apartheid protests
Jeff is a computer hacker
Jack is a banker in Bermuda
Amy married James Wentzel in 1996, and Amy and James are described as a happy couple.
1974: Gerald & Elizabeth Ford
Three sons and one daughter: Michael, John, Steven, and Susan
1969: Richard M. Nixon
Two daughters: Tricia and Julie
Tricia took television viewers on a public showing of previously unseen rooms in the White House's family quarters.
Tricia and her husband (Ed Cox) are happily married in Manhattan.
Tricia and Julie were also in college when their father was President; however, they didn't have as intense of a media experience: they did well in school and kept out of trouble.
Nixon Family Dinner. (Extra guy is Tricia's husband)
The WhiteHouse.gov site has an webpage about and for children in the White House. There is no page for the twins, but the President's pets all get their own webpages. Wierd! Pets are more important than children???
It used to be a real nice informative page, now it is some gawd-awful page with bright red background. (Click here for the old version)
Why did they (The new WhiteHouse.Gov team of Bush) pick red? Are they trying to make Americas children uneasy? Are they trying to instill notions of the Red Scare? You know what is funny, if you search for 'Amy Carter' on the whitehouse.gov site, you get the old, cool url: http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/children.html as a valid page. When you click on it, you get a 404 error (they pretend like it is a 300 error, but it ain't!)
There used to be info on all the families that have lived in the WhiteHouse, however -- since The President declared September 24 National Family day (in the year 2001) -- the First Families page of the whitehouse.gov's site also disappered.
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