Like the Obama daughters, Chelsea Clinton went to Sidwell Friends, where she was a National Merit Scholar. Despite being a First Daughter, she still had to do chores. After she had her friends over for a screening in the White House theater, she had to clean the popcorn off the floor. She loved to dance and performed in Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker.” In her father’s autobiography, he revealed that he helped Chelsea with math homework up until the 8th grade; Hillary Clinton once said she was “up late working on the Mesopotamians.” On her Sweet 16 in 1996, three radio stations offered her cars, but her parents turned them down.
Happy Birthday to America—and her First Daughters
President Obama isn't just celebrating the birth of the nation on July 4, he's celebrating the birth of his daughter Malia, who is turning 14. In honor of both milestones, TIME looks back through the years at other First Daughters, whose youthful exuberance reflects the best of America on her 236th birthday