Barbara Pierce Bush
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| Born | November 25, 1981 (age 25) Midland, Texas, US |
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| Parents | George W. Bush and Laura Bush |
Barbara Pierce Bush, (born November 25, 1981, Midland, Texas), is the elder of the fraternal twin daughters and only children of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. Her sister is Jenna Bush. They are known as the first First Twins both because they are the children of the US President and because they are the first twin children of a sitting President. Barbara is named after her paternal grandmother, former First Lady Barbara Bush. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in humanities.
When her father became Governor of Texas in 1994, Barbara attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. In 1996, Barbara began attending Austin High School, graduating with the class of 2000. She followed her father's legacy by choosing to attend Yale University, her father's, grandfather George H.W. Bush's, and great-grandfather Prescott Bush's alma mater.
Barbara lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.[1]
While Barbara Bush was on a two-week trip to Argentina in November 2006, two incidents occurred. A Secret Service agent got into an "altercation" with someone during a night out, during his down time. The Secret Service said that it was an attempted mugging, but the agent is now fine. Barbara Bush's purse and cell phone were stolen during a dinner in Buenos Aires. It occurred during her first night, in the San Telmo neighborhood. Reports indicate that a detail of Secret Service agents guarding her apparently failed to notice the incident. The Secret Service wouldn't comment immediately on the theft. [2]
[edit] Public role
Despite her attempts to remain outside the view of mainstream media, on May 29, 2001, Barbara was charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol at Chuy's, a popular Mexican restaurant in Austin, Texas. This, along with the charges against her sister, were widely publicized by the media. They both pleaded no contest to all charges. [3] [4]
Barbara's graduation from Yale in May 2004 was given heavy media coverage. This more open relationship with the media grew during the summer of 2004 prior to the 2004 US Presidential election when she and Jenna made several public appearances, including giving a speech to the Republican Convention on August 31 [5]. Barbara and Jenna took turns traveling to swing states with their father and also gave a seven-page interview and photo shoot in the August 2004 edition of Vogue magazine. The media also extensively covered the campaigning of John Kerry's daughters Vanessa and Alexandra, making the "battle of the daughters" a human interest element of the campaign. Barbara joined her mother on diplomatic trips to Liberia in January 2006 to attend the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and to Vatican City to meet with Pope Benedict XVI in February 2006.
Barbara has recently been working with AIDS patients in Africa through a program sponsored by the Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine's International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative. [6] [7][8][9][10]
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