Jenna and Henry on Honeymoon #2

This time they're in Maui, and what's eerie is how much she looks like her Mom in this beach photo.

Jenna Bush: Mommy-Zilla Versus Storm ...

... and the First Daughter wasn't talking about Japanese horror movies and X-men. Back from her European honeymoon, she described her father getting choked up and her mother's reaction to a storm that hit the ranch the day before the Wedding:

"It was a slight disaster," Jenna said of a storm that caused part of the wedding tent to blow away a day before the reception, getting everything wet and toppling the band's set-up for the next day.

"We named my mom, although she's not this...she may kill me afterwards, 'Mommy-Zilla,'" said Jenna, explaining how her mother helped repair the preparations that had been compromised. "Well, just cause I didn't really care. And thank goodness she was 'Mommy-Zilla' because she did everything. Is that mean?"

Laura laughed and jokingly said, "Yeah. I'm insulted."

Jenna and Henry On Honeymoon

Source: Official White House Photo

After a beautiful wedding in Crawford, Texas, Henry and Jenna Hager are in Europe for their honeymoon before settling in their new home in Maryland. Congratulations, Jenna and Henry!

Jenna Bush For Obama?

Blogger Andrew Romano of Newsweek guesses that Jenna might be interested in learning about one candidate in particular -- Senator Barack Obama, joining a bunch of other First Daughter alums like Susan Eisenhower and Julie Nixon.

Jenna Bush at the Texas Library Association

The First Daughter is speaking today about Ana's Story here in Dallas for the HUGE Texas Library Association's Annual Convention. Hey, Jenna -- stop by the Penguin booth this afternoon from 2 to 3 and get your own signed copies of the First Daughter novels.

Jenna Bush: Ana's Baby Okay!

The First Daughter is gearing up for her May wedding with bachelorette parties in Boca Raton and antique shopping in Georgetown, but still made time to visit the subject of her book, Ana's Story, as reported by the Washington Post's Reliable Source, and came back with good news: 

While planning a wedding and promoting a book, Jenna Bush managed to slip away several weeks ago to visit "Ana," the HIV-positive teenage mom in Latin America who was the subject of her book.

"I took Ana's baby to get her HIV test," the first daughter told a convention of young Jewish activists at the Washington Hilton ... -- adding, to a burst of applause, "She's negative."

BBC's Take on First Daughters

The posh Brit channel is waking up to the power of the wannabes, and also gives us a nice photo essay of First Daughters then and now.

White House Slumber Party

Jenna and ten of her friends spent the night at the White House before her shower on Saturday. FUN!

Caroline Kennedy Picks Sasha's Dad

Former First Daughter Caroline Kennedy, who lost her Dad when she was four days short of six years old, wants six-year-old Sasha's Dad to be the next President.

In her NYT op-ed column, A President Like My Father, she argues that Obama has the power to inspire teenagers:

I have spent the past five years working in the New York City public schools and have three teenage children of my own. There is a generation coming of age that is hopeful, hard-working, innovative and imaginative. But too many of them are also hopeless, defeated and disengaged ... Senator Obama is inspiring my children, my parents’ grandchildren, with that sense of possibility.

No White House Wedding For Jenna :(

She's marrying Henry Hager on May 10th in Crawford, Texas on the family ranch so we'll miss out on the glam and the glitz of a White House wedding. But maybe that's in keeping with this First Daughter's style. Here's to dreaming that an engraved envelope arrives soon in the mail ...

First Twin in Peru

Jenna's visiting UNICEF projects in Inca territory this week. Doesn't she look exactly like her mother in this photo?

Chelsea Defends The Bush Twins

Everybody in the know likes Hillary's daughter. Here's another reason why that might be: when some dude recently tried to dis the current First Daughters, Chelsea stood up for them instead of agreeing with him.

Jenna: "Hi Dad, R U Mad?"

Here's the clip from the Ellen Show:

Ellen: "Jenna, Phone Home."

The host of "The Ellen Show" talks the First Daughter into cold-calling her parents, and finds nothing but sweetness. (Does anybody out there still get the ET-ism in my post title, or is that classic but boring film as old as Drew Barrymore seems now when I watch it?)

Good Thing They Have A Gym

Check out this quote from an AP article in about what the pastry chefs at the White House are baking for holiday guests:

There will be an estimated 60,000 people touring the White House during the holidays and about one-third of the visitors will be tasting the 20,000 Christmas cookies, 700 assorted holiday cakes, 600 pounds of asparagus and 320 gallons of eggnog.

Along with the chicken-fried steak, there are 10,000 tamales; cheeses from Vermont and New York; 1,000 pounds of steamed shrimp from the Gulf; fresh salmon from Maine; Virginia ham; Maryland crab cakes; lamb; cheesy grits; and orzo salad.

Still hungry? Desserts include cakes, truffles, bread pudding, cherry cobbler and iced cookies in the shape of animals and tree leaves ... At the far end of the State Dining Room sits the traditional gingerbread house, a replica of the White House built with gingerbread and more than 300 pounds of white chocolate.

THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF WHITE CHOCOLATE? Why don't these First People get rounder and rounder? Maybe because of the gym and the personal trainer ... White House perks you need after eating junk food on the campaign trail.

Jenna's Cherished Possessions

Lynn Bronikowski of The Rocky Mountain News interviewed Jenna Bush during her book tour for Ana: A Journey of Hope, asking some of the same questions lots of reporters seem to ask, like how she got engaged, what's on her iPod, and her relationship with the First Parents. I liked Jenna's answer to another not-so-common question, especially because I can relate to Ana's situation:

Ana's most cherished possession is a photocopy of a photo of her mother, who died when Ana was three. What's your most cherished possession?

That's a good question — hmm, my most cherished possession. I have letters from my mom's father, who passed away when I was younger. He wrote one the day I was born and others on my birthdays. I love looking back at these letters. The reason Ana's most cherished possession is the photocopy is that as an AIDS orphan, she doesn't remember her parents and she wants to make sure she can keep their memory alive. It was something I was very interested in because I'm lucky enough to have my parents still living and have lived with them and grown up with them.

Jenna Wows At Grandma's Gathering

At her grandmother's literacy fundraising bash, one of the most popular authors invited to read was Jenna Bush, who apparently flew coach to get there. We know what she looks like, but how does this First Daughter sound? Alan Peppard of the Dallas Morning News gives us the inside scoop:

First daughter Jenna Bush was there to read from her new book, Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope.

When the younger Ms. Bush took the stage in a sleeveless red dress, there was a momentary epiphany. That face, a pleasing amalgam of her parents, is as familiar as any movie star's. But who has heard her speak?

For the record, she sounds like a Memorex version of her mother with a notable exception. Laura Bush gives the impression of a woman with things to say who restrains herself. Her daughter, Jenna, on the other hand, is youthful ebullience personified.

Jenna Needs A Ghostbuster

Didja know that Jenna's room in the White House is the same one used by Chelsea Clinton and JFK Junior? And that she told Skip Hollandsworth of Texas Monthly in an exclusive interview she's convinced the room's haunted?

I get scared there sometimes. I'm not kidding. I have heard ghosts, I really have – ghosts singing opera. One night, opera noises came out of my fireplace. When I told my sister, she didn't believe me, but the next week we were up late in that bedroom, and we heard 1950s piano music. People will think I'm crazy for saying that.

Years ago, Lynda Johnson also got freaked out by "paranormal phenomena" in that same room.

Jenna, UNICEF, and Children of AIDS

Jenna Bush shares stories of kids she met while working with UNICEF:



"No matter where we live," she concludes, "people all over the world want the same things." See? The power and glitz of life the White House doesn't have to blind a First Daughter.

Jenna Thinks Chelsea's Sick

In a 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer to be broadcast this Friday (9/28, 10 p.m. EST), Jenna Bush shared about how Henry proposed, her future goals, and which First Daughter she thought was most cool. Here's her take on that:

"I think Chelsea Clinton is, is very kind and, um, smart and articulate," she said. "She's always been very friendly to us, but we just wanted to be ourselves, but she was, she's beautiful and poised all the time."