If one of your parents is the president, you're expected to behave well under the glare of
the public eye.
But these presidential children were total troublemakers.
There's nothing like being young and on top of the world.
College kids partaking in underage drinking is typically about as scandalous as some mild
jaywalking.
But when you're the child of a president, it doesn't matter how awesome the kegger down
the street is.
Still, teens will be teens, and being the president's children wasn't going to stop
the Bush twins from indulging in some mild adolescent hell-raising.
For Barbara and Jenna Bush, the year 2001 was just one major buzzkill after another.
In February, Jenna's 18-year-old boyfriend was arrested for public drunkenness and had
to be picked up from county jail by the Secret Service.
In May, both Jenna and Barbara were caught trying to buy alcohol using a fake ID.
This was just two weeks after Jenna appeared in court, charged with underage drinking.
She was fined $51.25 and sentenced to eight hours of community service and six hours of
alcohol awareness classes.
The media had a field day with the court appearance, and for some reason fixated on the toe ring
she wore that day.
Patti Davis, who was 28 at the time of her father Ronald Reagan's inauguration, was a
liberal college dropout who made her opposition to some of her father's policies very well
known both during and after his presidency.
She was most notably active in the campaign against nuclear weapons, even speaking at
anti-nuclear rallies.
In fact, she once brought a prominent anti-nuclear activist to the White House to speak with
her father.
She didn't let her mom Nancy off the hook, either, as she considered her anti-drug campaign
in particular to be short-sighted.
This dissidence opened up a rift between Davis and her parents, which only widened further.
She was critical of both of her parents in a 1992 autobiography, and in 1994 she appeared
on the cover of Playboy.
Davis and her parents started to heal their strained relationship shortly before her father's
death in 2004.
She still had a bit of a wild streak, as she posed again in 2011, this time for More
magazine.
But otherwise, the rebellious former first daughter has cooled her jets somewhat, and
Reaganist conservatives around the country have been having significantly fewer heart
attacks.
Before becoming president himself and making everyone forget about his youthful antics,
George W. Bush's eldest son made a name for himself as a hard-drinking party boy in his
younger years.
Right after college, he had a period during which he partied, dated with abandon, and
would sometimes go months without a job.
He was an undeniable charmer, though, the kind of guy who'd drink you under the table,
steal your girl, and still invite you to watch the ball game with him that weekend.
More controversially, he signed up for pilot training with the National Guard in 1968,
suspected by some as a way to avoid being drafted during the Vietnam War, although Bush
denied this.
Then, of course, came the George W. Bush presidency, and with it the Iraq war, a brewing financial
crisis, and plenty of other scandals and missteps.
These days he spends most of his time painting portraits, rather than painting himself into
a corner.
President Reagan's youngest son, Ron, wasn't the biggest thorn in the family's side when
his father was in office, as his sister Patti was stirring up plenty of trouble.
But he definitely proved to be cut from the same cloth, and his own disruptive tendencies
would eventually reveal themselves in a pretty big way.
Like Patti, Ron had liberal views that were usually at odds with his father's politics.
But while he didn't make the same kind of name for himself that his sister did during
his dad's presidency, he did become more outspoken as the years went on.
He caused his biggest splash in 2011 when he released My Father at 100, a memoir about
his life with the former president in which he claimed that the initial signs of his father's
Alzheimer's were observable while he was still in office.
This didn't sit well with his older brother Michael, who said he was outraged over Ron's
comments.
Taking it even further, he said Ron was an "embarrassment" to his father when he was
alive and an embarrassment to his mother after writing that book.
Ron's troublemaking since then hasn't been nearly as incendiary, but he's still taken
opportunities to let his liberal voice be heard, even promoting atheism in a 2014 commercial.
"Please support the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Ron Reagan, lifelong atheist, not afraid of burning in hell."
Sometimes people start trouble for the right reasons, and a good dollop of disorder in
the face of institutional oppression and abuse can be just what's needed.
Not everyone was happy with how Jimmy Carter's activist daughter Amy chose to live her life
throughout the '80s and '90s, but it's not hard to imagine that perhaps her pops approved
of all the feathers she ruffled along the way.
Amy was only 9 years old when her father was elected, and it wasn't until after he left
office that she started to make headlines as a committed political activist.
Politically inclined and resolute in her beliefs from a young age, by the time she was in her
late teens she really wasn't playing around.
She was arrested in 1985 during an anti-apartheid demonstration at the South African embassy,
and again in 1987 during one of many anti-CIA demonstrations she'd been taking part in.
She was dismissed from Brown University that same year for academic reasons, although a
friend of hers speculated that the dismissal was probably because she focused more on political
causes than on her classwork.
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