Jenna and Barbara Bush with their parents George W. Bush and Laura Bush

Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush (born November 25, 1981, in Dallas, Texas) are the fraternal twin daughters of U.S. president George W. Bush and Laura Bush. Barbara is the elder sister.

Jenna, the blonde, is named after her maternal grandmother and attended the University of Texas at Austin, Texas. Barbara, the brunette, is named after her paternal grandmother and attended her father's and grandfather's alma mater, Yale University. Jenna has said that she wants to become a teacher in Washington, D.C. and Barbara is reported to have plans to work with AIDS sufferers in Africa.

Graduation and campaigning

Both daughters graduated from college in May of 2004; the events were given heavy media coverage, as opposed to the "hands-off" approach that journalists had taken in the past. This more open relationship with the media grew during the summer of 2004, prior to the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, in which the twins made several public appearances, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31. The twins, who took turns traveling to various swing states with their father, gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in the August 2004 (http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/071404/page2.html) edition of Vogue magazine. In the interview Jenna describes the twins' decision to accompany their father on parts of the campaign trail as their own decision. "It's not like he [her father] called me up and asked me," she said. "But I love my Dad and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this." The media also extensively covered the campaigning of John Kerry's daughters Vanessa and Alexandra, turning the election into, at least in part, a "battle of the daughters".

See also: George W. Bush presidential campaign, 2004

External links

• The First Twins (http://www.TheFirstTwins.com/)
• Rotten Library (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/black-sheep/barbara-jenna-bush/)