Photography icon Ansel Adams teaches his craft to Susan Ford, President Gerald Ford's daughter, in this 1973 photo near Yosemite Falls, California
This First Daughter lived out the ultimate teenage fantasy when she hosted a lavish prom for her high school classmates in the East Room of the White House. There was only one thing missing: alcohol. “We couldn’t serve beer because we’d have had to get a slip from each student’s parents saying they approved.” According to People, her date was William “Billy” Wainright Pifer, a junior at Washington & Lee University, whom she had met on a blind date at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. Susan got other perks too: She took up photography after meeting a TIME photographer who was assigned to cover the White House. The legendary Ansel Adams gave her a private workshop. But being First Daughter can be sobering, too, as Susan learned after the attempt on her father’s life. “I remember the miserable nights,” she said. “I was never comfortable when he went out in a crowd, and I was always looking to see whether he was wearing a bulletproof vest.”