All The Presidents' Daughters Of The 1960s And '70s

By | October 23, 2018

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Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy holding daughter Caroline outdoors on Election Day, 1960. (Photo by Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Growing up with famous parents can be challenging, but if your dad is the President of the United States, that makes it even more difficult. Famous First Daughters and their president dads have that special father-daughter relationship, on steroids -- fathers always want to protect their little girls, and daughters tend to idolize their dads. Imagine doing that in public, with a powerful POTUS dad and political enemies slinging endless mud at him. First Daughters of President Dads in the '60s and '70s saw an assassination, a resignation in disgrace, a high school prom, a wedding, and the usual trials and tribulations of growing up.  Sure, the White House might be a cool place to live, but you have to deal with Secret Service and the media circus and being forced to attend stuffy state dinners. During the 1960s and 1970s, several of the Presidents brought their daughters with them to Washington. Do you remember these groovy First Daughters of the '60s and '70s? 

Caroline Kennedy

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Caroline Kennedy dancing around the Oval Office with her brother and her father, the POTUS.

Little Caroline Kennedy was just three years old when she moved into the White House with her dad, President John F. Kennedy, her mother, Jackie Kennedy and her baby brother, John Jr. The media loved to capture images of her playing in the Rose Garden and in the Oval Office, in part because it helped to cement Kennedy’s image as a family man. Sadly, Caroline’s stay at the White House was short-lived. When her father was assassinated in 1963, she moved to New York with her mother and brother and spent the remainder of her childhood mostly out of view of the media spotlight.