I just looked it up. It's in Bill Minutaglio's "First Son" decent biography. He says it was Tricia but I thought I've read about it elsewhere in good biographies as Julie? Maybe my memory is faulty.
Nixon sent a private plane to get George W for a special date with one of his daughters in 1969 when he was in the National Guard on base in Georgia. Minutaglio says:
"Of course, word even went all the way back to Houston. His friends there knew that he hated the entire episode, hated being forced to endure that long plane ride to Washington.' We went to dinner. It wasn't a very long date,' was all that Bush would ever say"
Julie Nixon,and David Eisenhower were CHILDHOOD SWEETHEARTS. IIRC,and I usually do,they dated throughout college and were even engaged when they were in college.I DO know,for a certitude,that Julie married David PRIOR to her father's inaugural.I WATCHED whatever was shown of the wedding (which wasn't much,since she did NOT want it to be anything at all like the public show the Johnson girls made)on T.V. and read the wedding announcement in the N.Y. Times! Ergo.........IF you read this in a book,the author is a moron,who had his/her "facts" completely and utterly,damned,dead wrong. :-)
I did some online searching and it does look like it was Tricia not Julie, after all. I remember Tricia vaguely from that time. She was the blonde beauty who had the Rose Garden wedding. I also remember that Nixon did try to fix her up with Prince Charles too. Lucky for her that one didn't work out.
I'd like to see another Rose Garden wedding if Jenna or Barbara would oblige. There hasn't been a First Daughter wedding there since Tricia Nixon.