Book: Bush twins unhappy about limelight

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Book: Bush twins unhappy about limelight
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Thu, 01-08-2004 - 11:44am

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Wednesday, January 7, 2004 · Last updated 7:52 p.m. PT


Book: Bush twins unhappy about limelight


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


WASHINGTON -- President Bush's twin daughters have shown little interest in their family's tradition of public service and are unhappy about the limelight they find themselves in, a new book says.


Jenna and Barbara Bush "have not campaigned or reined in their adolescent rebellions," Washington Post reporter Ann Gerhart says in the book published this week, "The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush."


"They have not appeared engaged in any of the pressing issues their generation will inherit, nor shown empathy for the struggles facing their mother and their father," Gerhart says. "They don't show their faces at the White House often."


The Bush daughters turned 22 in November. Barbara Bush attends Yale University, while Jenna Bush is a student at the University of Texas at Austin.


The book recalls the twins' run-ins with the law in underage drinking incidents. The girls regard their Secret Service agents as "their chauffeurs, bellhops and valets," the book says. It says "they persist in seeing themselves as victims of daddy's job."


Their parents have taken a hands-off approach toward the young women, the author says.


"The only lesson they wanted to impart to their children, (their father) said during the presidential campaign, was 'that I love you. I love you more than anything. And therefore you should feel free to fail or succeed, and you can be anything you want in America.'"


Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for Laura Bush, declined to comment on the book.


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Thu, 01-08-2004 - 12:41pm
The apples don't fall far from the Bush, I mean tree.

 


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Thu, 01-08-2004 - 3:17pm
I think it's good to leave the President's daughters out of the limelight. I remember the horrible attacks on Chelsea Clinton, who was much younger at the time. The Dems have shown some class in leaving the Bush twins out of the political fracas.
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Thu, 01-08-2004 - 6:35pm
I agree...although it's sad because Chelsea didn't do anything to deserve it but the Bush twins have.