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Helping out the folks.(Election 2004)(Jenna and Barbara Bush campaigning for their father)

Yak's Corner (National Magazine)

| September 30, 2004 | Bell, Dawson | COPYRIGHT 2004 Detroit Free Press, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

What do you think you will be doing a year after you get out of college? Starting a career? Traveling the world? How about campaigning across the country, trying to help one of your parents get elected president?

That's what Jenna and Barbara Bush, twin, 22-year-old daughters of President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush, are doing.

The twins were in Michigan this month to thank volunteers working on the Bush campaign in Brighton. Then Jenna and Barbara went to Michigan State University in East Lansing for a pep rally with about 200 college-age kids who support their father.

This is the first time the Bush girls have worked on one of their father's campaigns. When he was twice elected governor of Texas and ran for president in 2000 they stayed out of the spotlight.

But Barbara said they asked to help with their father's final campaign this year. In May, Barbara graduated from Yale University and Jenna graduated from the University of Texas.

They were raised in Texas, where their father worked in the oil business and ran the Texas Rangers ...

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