Julie Nixon Eisenhower Gives a White House Tour

In this photograph, taken by James P. Blair on July 18, 1969, Julie Nixon Eisenhower conducts a tour of the White House for sight impaired and partially blind children. Eisenhower, the daughter of President Richard M. Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, is seen speaking to the children next to G. P. A. Healy's official portrait of John Quincy Adams in the Blue Room. The tours were part of a series of accommodations and programs overseen by First Lady Pat Nixon to make the Executive Mansion as accessible to as many visitors as possible. This included the installation of outdoor lights, wheelchair ramps outside the East Wing and North Portico entrances, and tours like the garden tour of the White House Grounds and holiday Candlelight Tours.