Life After The White House
Julie and David settled in Devon, Pennsylvania, where she completed several books, including Pat Nixon: The Untold Story, a biography of her mother. She has an extensive record of community service in the Philadelphia area and is active with the Richard Nixon Foundation, sitting on its board, as well as that of the Center for the National Interest (formerly known as the Nixon Center).
Despite her and her husband's and father's Republican background and relationships to Presidents Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Julie Nixon Eisenhower supported Democrat Barack Obama for President in 2008. According to Federal Election Commission records, she made the maximum contribution of $2,300 to the Obama campaign during the 2008 primary season.
In 2010, she and her husband David co-authored Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life With Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, a biography of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's final years after he left the White House.
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