12 photos show how motherhood has changed in the White House

Jacqueline Kennedy was an accomplished equestrian, and she passed her love of horses on to her children. At 5 years old, Caroline had her own pony named Macaroni.

President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson's daughter Luci married Patrick Nugent in 1966. They held their ceremony at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and their reception in the East Room.

Luci's sister, Lynda, got married in the East Room the following year to Charles Robb, a captain in the Marines.

The wedding ceremony took place in the White House Rose Garden — making it the first outdoor White House wedding — followed by a reception in the East Room.

The youngest of the Ford children, Susan lived in the White House full-time. In 1975, 17-year-old Susan held her senior prom in the East Room of the White House. Her senior class raised all the funds for the prom, including the fee for bands Sandcastle and the Outerspace Band, and elected her prom queen, according to Vanity Fair. It remains the only prom to have ever been held in the White House.

Amy Carter was 9 years old when her father's presidency began. She had a pet Siamese cat named Misty who accompanied her to Camp David and took up residence in her doll house.

The Reagans had two children: Ron Jr. and Patti. Nancy Reagan was also stepmother to two children from her husband's first marriage, Michael and Maureen.

They didn't always have the easiest relationship. In 1984, Nancy Reagan told columnist Betty Beale that Michael had been estranged from the family for three years, The Washington Post reported. In 1992, Patti wrote a tell-all memoir detailing "her father's emotional abandonment of her, her mother's cruelty, and the family's bitter rivalries, uncontrollable rage, and dark secrets." 

President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush's five children were adults with kids of their own when they moved into the White House in 1989.

Their grandchildren joined them for Christmas every year, dressing as elves and helping decorate the National Christmas Tree.

"I remember well my own college years: the good, the bad and the ridiculous," Hillary Clinton wrote. continuing: "I can't imagine having any of those private experiences, all part of finding myself, being interrupted by the bright lights of cameras — and not because of anything I was or did but because of my parents' occupations. I hope Chelsea's college years will be her own, too."

Bill Clinton was president from 1993 to 2001 — his daughter graduated from Stanford that same year.

Barbara attended Yale, while Jenna attended the University of Texas at Austin.

While they didn't live in Washington full-time, the sisters did occasionally bring boyfriends to the White House to meet their parents.

"I think it was intimidating to them," Barbara told Access Hollywood in 2022.

Robinson took the girls to and from school, took them to playdates, and helped them with homework, The New York Times reported in 2009. As they got older, Robinson taught them how to do their own laundry, she told CBS News.

In a 2015 appearance on "The Rachael Ray Show," Michelle Obama said that Malia's Secret Service detail taught her how to drive "because they wouldn't let me in the car with her."

While President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, Melania didn't move in with Barron until that June.

Barron was the first boy to live in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr.

The Bidens hosted their oldest granddaughter Naomi's wedding to Peter Neal at the White House in November 2022.

The New York Times reported that Naomi and Neal were living at the White House while they were engaged. They wed on the South Lawn of the White House and held their reception in the State Dining Room.

The first lady also brought her granddaughter Finnegan to the coronation of King Charles III in May.