Presidential Daughters

Malia Obama, 12, the eldest daughter of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, makes her way to board Marine One May 27, 2010, on the South Lawn of the White House. Born on July 4, 1998, Malia attends Sidwell Friends School, along with her younger sister, Sasha. The Obama girls are the youngest children to live in the White House in 30 years.

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Sasha Obama

Little sister Sasha, born June 10, 2001, plays with the family dog, Bo. The Obama girls are not the first to enjoy a front row seat to history.

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Jenna Bush

George W. Bush's daughter set off a mild uproar when she stuck out her tongue to the media July 20, 2004. Whether you call it high spirits or bad manners, one thing's for sure: You'd never see a photo like this featuring the Nixon girls or Margaret Truman.

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Barbara Bush

In this photo taken only a week before, President Bush is shown walking from the Oval Office with his other daughter (and Jenna's twin sister) Barbara Bush. They were departing the White House for a two-day campaign trip to Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

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Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea, who is a year older than the Bush twins, often accompanied her parents on official trips when her father was in office. Here, they are shown walking together through the Garden Yuyuan in Shanghai June 30, 1998. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was doing her own events elsewhere in Shanghai.

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Doro Bush-Koch

She is the daughter of George H.W. Bush and the sister of George W. and has been an active campaigner for both. The elder Bush and his wife did have another daughter, Pauline Robinson "Robin" Bush, who died of leukemia in 1953 at the age of 3.

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Maureen Reagan

Maureen Reagan kisses her father, President Ronald Reagan, while first lady Nancy Reagan claps during a rally in Redondo Beach, Calif., in 1992. Maureen, who was the daughter of Mr. Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, died Aug. 8, 2001 of skin cancer at the age of 60.

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Patti Davis

Ronald Reagan plays with his daughter, Patricia, in the pool of their Pacific Palisades, Calif. home in 1966. She grew up to first vigorously oppose her father's policies, and later to reconcile with him and her mother, Nancy, before his death in 2004.

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Amy Carter

President-elect Jimmy Carter is shown in this official White House portrait with wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy, Dec. 6, 1976. Amy, an illustrater and political activist, married James Gregory Wentzel in 1996. They have a son, Hugo, who was born in 1999.

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Susan Ford

President Gerald Ford eats a meal with his daughter Susan in his Alexandria, Va., home during the first week of his administration in this Aug. 11, 1974, photo. Mr. Ford, who wanted to eliminate the trappings of an "imperial" presidency, made a point of being photographed in everyday settings.

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Julie Nixon

President Richard Nixon embraces his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Aug. 8, 1974, after informing his family of his decision to resign, in a photo released by the White House. The photo was made in the family's living quarters.

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Tricia Nixon

President Richard Nixon and his daughter, Tricia, are shown as they arrived Dec. 6, 1968, for a Republican Governors' Association State Dinner in Palm Springs, Calif. She married Ed Cox in a Rose Garden wedding on June 12, 1971. They have a son, Christopher, who was born in 1979.

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Lynda Bird Johnson

President Lyndon B. Johnson escorts his daughter, bride Lynda Bird Johnson, to the White House East Room Dec. 9, 1967, when the first daughter wed Marine Corps Capt. Charles S. Robb. There have been no White House wedding since June 12, 1971, when Tricia Nixon married Ed Cox.

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Luci Baines Johnson

Luci Johnson shakes hands with Georgians as she accompanies her mother, Lady Bird (Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson) to Savannah, Ga., on Oct. 8, 1964. Luci wed Pat Nugent only two years later and they had four children together. That union was annulled in 1979. Today, Luci is married to Canadian financier Ian Turpin.

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Caroline Kennedy

John F. Kennedy, who was then the Democratic presidential nominee, carried his daughter, Caroline, 2, en route to a plane at Hyannis, Mass., on Aug. 29, 1960. Caroline, who has three children with husband Edwin Schlossberg, bears the JFK family torch alone these days.

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Margaret Truman

Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry S. Truman, waited in her dressing room at Masonic Temple in Detroit Nov. 11, 1949, before going to her song recital. Although she later abandoned her pursuit of a career in singing, she did find a following as a mystery novelist and biographer. She died Jan. 29, 2008, in Chicago at 83.

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Anna Roosevelt

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt relaxes in a motorcade car accompanied by his daughter, Anna, during a baseball game between White House newspapermen and a team fielded by broadcast journalist Lowell Thomas at Quaker Hill near Pawling, N.Y., Sept. 21, 1935. Anna died of cancer in 1975 at age 69.

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Elizabeth Ann Harding

Crowds surround the Capitol, in 1921, during the inauguration of the 29th U.S. President Warren G. Harding. Elizabeth was the illegitimate offspring of Harding's affair with Nan Britton, 30 years his junior. As president, Harding arranged child support payments, but he refused to meet his daughter.

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The Wilson Sisters

Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of Woodrow Wilson, is shown in 1923. She eventually traveled to Pondicherry, India, where she lived in the ashram of Sri Aurobindo, a contemporary of Gandhi. Her sister, Nellie, was famous for her White House wedding to the 52-year-old William Gibbs McAdoo, her father's Secretary of the Treasury.

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The Tafts

Helen Taft married a Yale professor, with whom she had two children. She worked for 40 years as an educator and administrator at Bryn Mawr College and was a suffragist who campaigned avidly for women's rights. She lived to be 95. (Pictured here is the image of President Taft at the memorial and corillion in Washington near Capitol Hill.)

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Ethel Roosevelt

President Theodore Roosevelt poses for a photograph with his wife, Edith, and his children, Ethel, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Archibald, and Quentin, at his Oyster Bay, L.I. home in 1907. Edith was his second wife.

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Alice Roosevelt

Alice Roosevelt Longworth looks over a bust of her late father, President Theodore Roosevelt, at New York University May 9, 1954. (Also pictured are Oscar S. Straus and Harold Stassen.) The only child born to Theodore Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Lee Hathaway, she was only 17 when her father became president, and the press dubbed her "Princess Alice."

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