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For a closer, both ABC and NBC dreamed of a White House wedding. First Daughter Jenna Bush is engaged to be married to Henry Hager, a onetime intern for his expected father-in-law's soon-to-be-former political operative Karl Rove. "When a President's daughter marries we all gawk. The country is atwitter," NBC's Bob Faw exaggerated. Faw speculated that George Bush's popularity could get the boost that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon enjoyed from West Wing nuptials: "It never hurts a President to give his daughter away." ABC anchor Charles Gibson recalled his previous job, on Good Morning America, when he confessed he "impolitely" asked Laura Bush about the young Hager. "This is not a serious boyfriend," the First Lady decreed at the time. "I hate to be the one to say it on television." Gibson smiled wryly: "Parents, sometimes, are the last to know."
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