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Jared and Ivanka are just the latest in a long line of presidential family members who didnt exactly bowl Washington over. But theyre also the lamest.
MARGARET CARLSON
02.28.18 10:30 PM ET
In many ways, Jared Kushner wont be any worse off than prior presidential family members working in the White House. Sure, he wont be privy to classified intelligence. Hell be asked to leave the room when the topics turn top secret. If he tries to enter the Situation Room, a large person talking into his wrist will bar him.
But these limitations didnt stop Webb Hayes (Rutherford B.s chief of staff), John Eisenhower (aide-de-camp to and son of Ike), Alice Roosevelt (Teddys right-hand woman and eldest daughter) or Bobby Kennedy (so infamous for being JFKs attorney general a law was passed to keep it form happening again) from influential positions counseling presidents of the same surname.
Sixteen children of presidents officially worked in the White House, by the estimate of author Doug Wead in All the Presidents Children, and even more unofficially. James and Elliot Roosevelt were constantly at their fathers side after polio rendered him paraplegic, their strong arms, Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote, making it seem in public as if he were still able to walk. Daughter Anna moved in to the White House in 1943 filling the role of first lady leaving Eleanor to turn her ceremonial role into a substantive one.
But in Kushners case, given his portfolio, his demotion to the kids table could prove fatal. Trump flouted the anti-nepotism rules like every other norm, whether giving up his business, releasing his tax returns, or accounting for the money he promised to charity.
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Javaman
(62,442 posts)Stuart G
(38,365 posts)wishstar
(5,267 posts)In particular during the Repub convention, the effusive praise by media pundits about the future prospects of the kids was nauseating
GWC58
(2,678 posts)with morbid fascination and it, absolutely, horrified me!😱