True fact: in the 50s all the old Nancy Drew titles were updated to add a boyfriend she fawned over who helped her out of tough situations and did a lot of the driving, because the original Nancy Drew was considered too independent by the publisher.
Ah, the adventurous life of a Senator's daughter. This is like that time Meghan McCain took a semester abroad in Cairo, and ended up having to save her dad and his dimwit sidekick Sarah from the Curse of the Mummy's Gold.