Marian's Retirement Home

Although she shares space with her daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren, I can’t imagine she feels cramped in a 55,000 square-foot mansion with three elevators, complemented with a staff to clean its 132 rooms (of which 35 are bathrooms) sitting on 18 acres of prime real estate.

Marian Lois (Shields) Robinson, enjoys 24-hour limousine service and an on-call kitchen for her dietary needs and whims. Not bad for a former Spiegel Catalog and banking secretary who didn‘t inherit, earn or marry into such opulent trappings, huh?!

Marian's retirement digs are actually public housing, paid for by you ‘n me.

There hasn’t been a ‘First Granny’ in the White House since Dwight & Mamie Eisenhower lived there in the 1950s.

Then and now, why are we footing the bill and who did you say approved that?