Eat Your Vegetables, Mr President!

Some of the most poignant questions, sage advice and heartrending pleas ever received by American presidents have come via children’s letters. These are some of the most memorable from over the last century - compelling reminders of the wit, wisdom and political power of youth!

Main Source:

Laskas, Jeanne Marie, To Obama With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair (London: 2018).

Additional Sources:

Letter to President Franklin D Roosevelt retrieved from https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/children_depression/12yearold.cfm [Accessed: 02/2021}.

Letter to President Kennedy retrieved from https://jfk.blogs.archives.gov/2017/12/21/its-cold-war-outside/ [Accessed: 02/2021}.

Letter to President Nixon retrieved from https://cpanel.ischool.illinois.edu/~gtg2/omeka2/items/show/53 [Accessed: 02/2021}.