Posted on 08/19/2007 2:58:52 PM PDT by hardback
Love at First Sight for Jenna's Guy
Laura Bush may have thought the two were just flirts years ago, but first daughter Jenna's fiancé, Henry Hager, felt it was love at first sight. "He knew when they started going out," says one pal, "that she was 'the one.'"
While no date is set, advisers suggest that a White House wedding could be the big society event the first lady has always longed to do but couldn't because the prez is [said to be] a party pooper.
Paul Bedard says Jenna probably feels the tug of Texas, but this may be the last time for first lady Laura Bush to put her mark on the East Wing.
A “White House Wedding” and all the publicity it would generate would send the Dems into a tailspin.
NewsMax: Talk to us about White House weddings. How many have there been?
Wead: Well, nine presidential children have been married in the White House, but all together there have been 17, including one president, Grover Cleveland. Two other presidents were married outside the White House during their time in office, John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson.
Tyler’s wedding took place in New York City to a bride 30 years his junior and she became the first lady for the last eight months of his presidency.
NewsMax: And do the children of presidents usually get married in the White House?
Wead: Usually, but many have been married outside the White House during their father’s presidency and some of these were spectacular social events. Fanny Hayes was married in Ohio; her father, President Hayes, had died but the sitting president William McKinley was in attendance, as well as his Cabinet. All came in on the president’s train.
The wedding of Luci Baines Johnson was a national social event, even though it took place at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. And the small, private wedding of Julie Nixon, shortly after her own father had won the presidency, to Dwight David Eisenhower II, himself the grandson and namesake of a president, prompted widespread public interest and curiosity.
Dorothy Bush, daughter and sister to two presidents was the only presidential child married at Camp David.
NewsMax: Jenna Bush is marrying a former aide to the president. Is that common?
Wead: Very common, like the rest of us, they marry whomever is around. Presidential sons and daughters have fallen in love with White House or congressional staffers and, in more recent times, military aides or secret service agents assigned to protect them.
Eleanor “Nellie” Wilson married Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo, thus overnight becoming a Cabinet officer’s wife in her father’s own administration. You can understand how that became a huge story. Dorothy Bush, who is both a daughter and sister of a president, married a congressional aide of the opposing political party.
NewsMax: Do the presidents and first ladies worry about someone taking advantage?
Wead: Very much. It’s hard to trust newcomers into the power orbit. What are their motives? Quite a few of the earlier presidential children from Maria Hester Monroe to Betsy Harrison married their own first cousins.
President Grant came into the White House with a beautiful teenage daughter, determined to keep her away from the boys, so he sent her to Europe. She fell in love with an English aristocrat onboard the ship.
In fact there were two presidential daughters who fell in love on ocean cruises while their father served in office. Both had spectacular weddings and both husbands turned out to be womanizers and alcoholics.
NewsMax: Are there traditions that govern these events are there any rules to a White House wedding?
Wead: Oh yes; it is very complicated, a convergence of society, power, and politics. One interesting tradition holds that you must invite the last bride of the last White House wedding, thus Maria Monroe was at the wedding of Elizabeth Tyler who attended the wedding of Nellie Grant who attended the wedding of Alice Roosevelt who attended the wedding of Tricia Nixon.
Lynda Bird Johnson was missed. So expect to see Tricia Nixon invited to the Jenna Bush wedding or see the chain broken.
NewsMax: What is so interesting, is how complex these love stories are. I suppose the Jenna Bush-Henry Hager story is just as interesting, and in time we will hear about it.
Wead: Well, the first White House wedding was marred by murder. And the second was very complex. John Adams II was married in a private ceremony in what is now called the Blue Room of the White House. His two brothers were in love with the same girl and refused to come. One had also been engaged to the bride and he committed suicide six months after the wedding.
But most of these stories are examples of love transcending power and greed. They are truly romantic love stories but yes, very complex.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/17/111807.shtml?s=lh
Somebody mention on another forum that son in law to be should have Karl Rove as best man that drive Demos crazy
I personally would love to see a “White House Wedding”
Rush said the press was already referring to Jenna as, "The wild one".
Truly that would be a memorable event for the entire family and close friends. I would only hope Bush is HIGHLY PARTISAN in their invitees - just as Demoncrats are. SNUB THEM DEMS ROYALLY.
Scotter Libby as part of the wedding party would also get them frothing at the mouth.
Ah, also Rumsfeld ... Demoncrats would go balistic.
Not only a White House wedding, but a White House wedding performed by, gasp, a minister. That will send the left into orbit and beyond.
Great photo!
There’s only 450 invitations allowed, that means at least 80-95 Washington big wigs are gonna get snubbed.
I hope the bride to be Jenna and the groom to be Henry do exactly what THEY want to. If that’s the memory of a WH wedding so be it.
Want the “snubbed” to ALL be Demoncrats like Peloski and her tribal followers.
Nancy Peolsi says no need to wait until the ceremony, just cut and run now!
“Scooter Libby as part of the wedding party would also get them frothing at the mouth.”
They’re already frothing at the mouth over the rumors she has a bun in the oven.
To be honest, I can kind of see it in some recent photos.
nooooo, it’s all about the mother of the bride.
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