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The backgrounds of America's First Families are diverse: Nancy Reagan and Lady Bird Johnson have Spanish forebears; Herbert Hoover was Swiss and Canadian; Mamie Eisenhower was part Swedish while Ike was German; Martin Van Buren and the Roosevelts were Dutch; James Garfield had a royal strain of French; Eliza Johnson's parents were immigrant Scottish sandal-makers; both Calvin Coolidge and Edith Wilson had American Indian blood she being a direct descendant of Pocahantas. Yet it is the Irish American who represents the largest majority of those who have been President or First Lady.