Here’s What Children of Former US Presidents Are Doing Right Now

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  • Caroline Kennedy – The daughter of John and Jackie Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy served as the US ambassador to Japan for three years. Being the first woman ambassador, Caroline Kennedy managed to strengthen the relationship with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
  • Lynda Bird Johnson Robb – Lynda Bird Johnson Robb is the oldest living child of a US president. She chaired the President’s Advisory Committee for Women in the 70’s, in order to help carry out former President Jimmy Carter’s mandate to promote gender equality.
  • Tricia Nixon Cox – Tricia is currently on the board of the Richard Nixon Foundation and is married to Edward Cox, whom she married in the first wedding in the White House Rose Garden in 1971.
  • Julie Nixon Eisenhower – Julie Nixon Eisenhower married David Eisenhower, President Eisenhower’s grandson, and just like that two of the country’s most powerful political families united. She also wrote a biography about her mother called “Pat Nixon: The Untold Story”, but also serves on the board of her father’s presidential library.
  • Michael Ford – Michael Ford returned in 1981 to his alma mater, Wake Forest University, as an associate dean of campus life, and retired in 2017 after 36 years.
  • Jack Ford – John Gardner “Jack” Ford was always considered President’s Ford “free-spirited, shaggy-haired son”, but he became a successful entrepreneur. He helped launch Outside magazine and founded a startup called “California Infotech”, which supplied electronic information kiosks to malls.

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