YOU’VE SEEN George W. Bush in standard presidential attire–a suit. But chances are you haven’t seen him in a snowsuit as a toddler, frolicking in wintry weather with another future president, his father. This charming clip alone, taken from a Bush family home movie, is reason enough to tune into All the Presidents’ Kids, a 90-minute documentary premiering this weekend on A&E (Sunday, September 14, 8:00 p.m. EST/PST). The video footage in the documentary is extensive and intriguing. There’s the fun-loving Luci Baines Johnson dancing the watusi as a teenager and, later, looking the radiant bride at her White House wedding reception; Amy Carter getting arrested in 1987 for protesting CIA recruitment on her college campus; and John F. Kennedy Jr. speaking candidly at the 1988 Democratic Convention about his ambivalent political aspirations. The documentary provides equal coverage of much “older” presidential children as well. There’s the heartbreaking story of 11-year-old Benjamin Pierce, who is said to have been beheaded in a train accident in front of his parents just a few days before his father’s inauguration. And at the very beginning there was John Parke Custis (son of Martha Washington by a previous marriage) who attempted to swindle his step-father, George Washington, in a cattle deal.

Doug Wead, former special assistant to George Bush and author of the monumental All the Presidents’ Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America’s First Families, provides insightful commentary throughout and seems to leave no interesting first child unexamined.