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Julie Nixon Eisenhower (born July 5, 1948) is the daughter of Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and Pat Nixon, former 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 former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. She is the mother of two daughters, Jennie Eisenhower and Melanie Catherine Eisenhower, and a son, Alexander Richard Eisenhower. ==Early life== Julie Nixon was born while her father, Richard Nixon, was a Congressman. 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.〔Pat Nixon A&E Biography〕 Julie began to cry during a celebration for her father's and President Eisenhower's second inauguration, as a result of believing 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.〔Aronson, p.30.〕 Also while watching 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.〔Frank, pp.286-287.〕 Her grandmother Hannah Nixon would come to watch her and her sister whenever her parents traveled.〔Frank, p. 76.〕 As a child, one of her favorite pets was a small dog named Checkers, who figured prominently in her father's most famous vice-presidential speech. As a teenager, she attended the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington along with her sister, Tricia. After her father lost the Presidential Election of 1960 to John F. Kennedy, Julie felt "battered" by the results and felt that the votes had "been stolen". Julie left school in 1961, after her father lost his presidential bid in 1960, and the family returned to California where her father ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1962. At the time of what her father called to reporters his "last press conference", she was waiting in a hallway with her mother and sister. That afternoon, Julie joined the two in crying at the foot of her parent's bed over her father's loss.〔Marton, p.184.〕 The Nixons moved to New York after the gubernatorial race, and Julie attended Smith College after her graduation from the Chapin School.〔()〕 She received a master's degree from New York University in 1972. David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, attended Amherst College nearby. Julie and David were both invited to address the Republican Women's Club. The club learned that the two were only seven miles apart, and invited the two to be featured speakers.〔Wead, p. 261.〕 They discussed the invitations and both chose to decline, but would come in contact again when David visited Julie with his roommate from Amherst and took her and a friend out to get some ice cream. David reflected: "I was broke, my roommate forgot his wallet. The girls paid."〔Gibbs, p. 253.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julie Nixon Eisenhower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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