Bush is depicted as a never-bumbling source of strength, as when Barbara went through a break-up and he checked in with her every day. We were too young and immature to consider how much my mother had wanted and wished for siblings of her own, to see how the bond between Barbara and me might have made her feel like an outsider.” Now Jenna and her mother are very close, and co-authors of two children’s books. I didn’t always understand my mom more precisely, I didn’t think she got me. “When I was little, I was a daddy’s girl. And Jenna gets very personal about the distance she felt from her mother when she was young: “My mother was a librarian and an only child - a combination that sometimes made it hard to relate to her point of view,” she writes in the book. Jenna shares an anecdote of their paternal grandmother, Barbara, writing a chastising letter about Jenna’s unsportsmanlike behavior at a family tennis tournament. To watch PeopleTV’s full interview with Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush, go to or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite mobile or connected TV device.Īt other more private moments in the book, the sisters and their family are at their most intriguing and unfamiliar. S., and you think your professors and TAs would be above that.” “Both the idea that she thought that I would be able to change the opinion of, truly, the Congress and the U. “That was definitely the most surprising thing that happened,” she says. I knew the signs were not personal, but it still felt like a stab each time I saw one.” Later in her time at Yale, a teaching assistant offered to give her a better grade if she convinced her father not to go to war in Iraq. The only way to avoid them was to stare at the ground. I couldn’t look out my window without seeing one. “The students living in the dorm across from mine had Al Gore signs in all their windows. “Emotionally, I was unprepared,” Barbara writes in the book. They were in their first semester of college - Jenna at the University of Texas at Austin, Barbara at Yale University - during the election and recount. Being First Daughters brought a series of challenges for the sisters.

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