Jenna Bush and Henry Hager in 2005.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President and Laura Bush's daughter, Jenna, is engaged to be married, the White House announced Thursday.
Jenna Bush, 25, is marrying Henry Hager, 28, a former White House aide who used to work with Karl Rove, and is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Business, according to the Associated Press. Henry Hager’s father, John, is the chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, and the former lieutenant governor of Virginia.
The two met during the 2004 presidential campaign, but were not first spotted together until the president's inauguration in 2005, according to Style Magazine.
The first lady's office tells CNN the proposal occurred last night. The two are currently vacationing together in Maine.
No word if Hager asked the president for permission before the proposal.
No wedding date has been set.
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This is great news for dried up old hags like me. If someone out there can find something to love in this presidential version of Paris Hilton, then I still have a chance.
Why is this considered breaking news?
Why is this considered breaking news?
Why would she get engaged with someone who works with her fater??
OK, count me as officially part of the tin-foil hat brigade...right before Jose Padilla's verdict is to be read, the White House hustles out news that one of the twins is getting married (White House Wedding anyone?)
God, who cares?
Who cares? Shouldn't she be fighting her fathers war and protecting our democracy?
This is NOT a "Breaking News" story and does not warrant a red or even yellow banner. How is Jenna Bush's engagement warranted a breaking news headline like the Iraq massacre and the Peru quake?
Can someone please tell me why this is considered news?
This isn't political news persay. Leave the couple alone. They don't make US policy and probably, like other GEN XYers, don't support the war. Leave them be.
Please say this is a joke putting this on front page CNN?
Soldiers dying..
Polar caps melting...
Miners stuck...
I'm sorry... Why is this here??
who cares.. she's too young to get married. and is probably going to get a divorce in about 2 years.
so the republican clans are joining forces.
sounds like an arranged marriage.
what a surprise.
i feel sorry for jenna.
i'm happy
Nothing like keeping it in the "family."
Henry Hager for President in 2028? Which Rove protege will run it?
Not to be cold-hearted, I guess best wishes, but I'd have been mildly impressed if this didn't look so much like an arranged marriage.
Who Cares!!!
Who cares!
so !! who cares
Congratulations and I wish them both a happy and long marriage with lots of children.
She has matured into a beautiful young lady with a bright future.
He's a lucky dude.
Jenna Bush is 26, not 24. She was born in 1981...
Is this really breaking news?
What is wrong with this country??!
This is "breaking news"? As long as the American taxpayers don't have to pay for her wedding, who cares???
Has the White House run out of diversions? WHy was this breaking news?
I think it is sad that this is what CNN considers "Breaking News".
WHO CARES!
yuck..
Wasn't John Hager one of the Hager Twins on Hee Haw?
Perfect contrast with the (currently) following story about Biden's son being deployed to Iraq.
This is headline news?!?!? Are you freakin' kidding me?!?!?
Let's be real, CNN. Who freakin' cares????
Is this really important? So what, she's getting married. I think it would be more important "breaking news" if she put on a uniform and was going to Iraq like so many sons and daughters of America! I bet that would end this war.
GOd knows she will not be like her father the hyprocte in office. I hope nor the son is like his father.
So.
I am happy for them, I wish them the best!
Who cares! She is to immature to get married and won't make it to 30 before getting divorced. I am sure it is just a publicity stunt to help soften her father's bad image. This article should be posted in some supermarket tabloid.
Time to switch to BBC World News...
Since when does this news rank a "CNN Breaking News" email? Shame on you CNN, you know better than this.
Oh wait...Breaking News! My daughter had *cereal* for breakfast this morning. Just thought you'd like to know...
Not in the military? Tsk, Tsk!
PS: Leave this breaking news to the tabloids.
It has to be a slow news day...
Why not look in the paper where the other common folk have their engagements
Honestly? He looks like a tool, but thats neither here nor there.
CNN had no bussiness posting this, let alone in the political ticker. Seems like you guys just wanted to score some cheap political points from Anti-Bushies..
Tanner–who made you the authority on marrying age, and how long the marriage will last? My god man..
Pregnant????
Who cares!
So you don't like happy news–go away you naysayers–Congratulations to the young couple!
Who cares is right!! Breaking news..... hardly worthy... I will echo
soldiers dying
ice caps melting
miners stuck – the list could go on
This is breaking news? When i saw breaking news flashing in my inbox, i was curious but once i opened, i was dissappointed.
What this has to do with politics? It is a private business.
Concurring with the "who cares!!!"
Why is this on the political ticker?
Tired of the media thinking we care about celebrities private lives.
You lefty's are so filled with
so much hate it is frighting. For christ sake get a life! She is the Pres daughter, IT IS NEWS!! it was news for every Pres!!
I'm very happy for her, the President and the Bush family.
Was this the same boyfriend/fiance' who accompanied Jenna on election night on 11/2/04? She really is a sparkling young lady and it was great that she took time in her father's campaign. It seems that she's gotten good civic experience and probably her and Mr. Hager will both be very involved politically in years to come.
The next Matalin-Carville maybe?
Uh, huh....
I find it interesting that so many of you will take your valuable time to dismiss this as non-newsworthy. You must have pretty lame lives. It is as newsworthy as Joe Biden's son is going to Iraq. Mine is also, but I don't see it on the ticker.
What a useless piece of information. When she does something important, instead of simply getting married to someone arranged by her father's puppetmaster Rove, then we can hear about it. Like maybe her enrolling in the Army to fight her dad's war?
I'm happy for the couple and like it or not Jenna Bush is front page news!
Being honest, it's news.... just not 'big' news (of course, unless she's pregnant).
An announcement made by the White House that Jenna Bush is going to be married hardly qualifies as "news."
CNN, what are you folks thinking?
ANOTHER DAY...ANOTHER SIDESHOW!
Time for him to go to Iraq!!
Although I personally don't care, I'm not surprised about the headlines. After all, Chelsea Clinton made headlines just for having her first boyfriend when her father was in the White House.
Jenna Bush and Henry Hager should enlist to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq.
SEND JENA AND FUTURE HUSBAND TO BAGDAD (IRAK) FOR THEIR HONEYMOON!!!!
Cheers.
Who cares? There are biggr problems to concenrate on in this counrty. Is there breaking news when Jane Doe gets engaged?
CNN BREAKING NEWS!!???
I'm at work – I requested these updates because I wanted to be current on U.S.affecting news.
CNN – you've waisted my time -
I agree...who really cares? I, too, feel sorry for her. She doesn't look too happy in that picture! Why would she be with anyone who used to work with Rove?????
Congrats Jenna!!! You are beautiful and your work with children is great!!
This is happy news for Jenna! 24 is a great age to be engaged. The comments on this post are so negative. Lighten up. CNN has always had entertainment/odd stories featured on the front page for variation.
Congrats! Why can't liberals be happy for anyone?
I cannot believe that this is "CNN Breaking News." Are you kidding? This was worthy enough to send an email aler to plaster on your homepage ABOVE Pabilla being convicted on terrorism charges. That hasn't even triggered an email alert and hello – he was a TERRORIST!!!
WOO HOO! She is getting married – how is that news? What does that have to do with anything? Why not just call yourseld "Entertainment Tonight" or "Extra" because that is the level of reporting that you are choosing to share with the nation.
Well, done. I guess I was wrong and it a slow news day even with with massive earthquakes, our troops deployed and dying in the middle east, California not having a State Budget, trapped miners, homeless, global warming and the like.
WOW! CNN the crowing jewel of nothing news. You all should be proud.
Who cares what those who don't care think? If it was Chelsea Clinton these same people would be demanding 48 point blinking font in the headline. Shouldn't these liberals be in the front lines of Iraq where they'd actually be useful?
Shes practically marrying her cousin... Oh wait, were talking about the Bush family here!
I care. Shes kinda HOT. One of the few good things that have come out of the Bush camp.
Congradulations to them. Too bad everyone has to have an opinion about something they know nothing about.
SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF OUR PRESIDENT, OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT AND ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO HIM OR HIS FAMILY, IT IS A BREAKING NEWSJ
MY PERSONAL OPINION
Congratulations Jenna! A White House wedding...How nice!
Shouldn't Jenna and Henry be over in Iraq protecting our freedoms?
pregnant... I called it
I honestly don't see how CNN of which I am generally a fan, could possibly see that this was breaking news and send out a bulletin on it. Who really cares? Now if she was serving in Iraq or doing some good somewhere, then her engagement might be worth a news note of some sort.
Since no one else is wishing them concrats, I will. Best wishes Jenna & Henry.
This is not breaking news... There are more important things going on in the world. The Minners, the Peru quake, the war.....
"you've waisted my time"
Did you mean "wasted"?
I didn't realize so many narrow minded people would feel so compelled to write rubbish about Jenna Bush's engagement on here. If you don't like the news that's posted here, go to another news website until you finally find news you are happy about.
Take a moment and think of the time it took for all of you to ask "Who Cares" and whine about it not being important, and then comment. Good or bad...you cared.
These Clinton and Bush dynasties have got to stop. Husbands, Wives, sons and daughters, now grandchildren running the country is not democratic. We need new blood, not recycled policies.
Johnny Simancas,
Did you vote for Bush once or twice?
Big who cares?
I hope CNN pays attention to the outpouring of indifference and outrage posted here.
I would like to see the Ticker become a mainstream center for honest and open political dialogue, but that’s not going to happen as long as the stories are all about Angelina Jolie and pancake-flipping.
Where do we do about health care policy? What are the candidates positions on education?
What should be done about trade with China in the wake of our massive national debt and the poison-import scandal? I think this is a great place for America to argue these issues. Instead we get to fight about whether Jenna wears white.
Who cares, indeed?
congrats despite what other people are saying about the breaking news.getting to start your life with someone is great!!!!!!!!!!! p.s. hope you guys have an amazing life together
plus guys this is the presidents daughter so show some excitement. he is only trying to do what he thinks is best for the country
Jim and your "wide mind" ... we wrote because a news agency like CNN can report this idiocy somewhere on the entertainment page or useless information page, because she is not headline grabbing. She hasn't been in her father's entire presidency, until apparently now, when CNN considers this "news worthy." Besides, we are entitled to our opinion ... us "narrow minded" folks.
"Um so she is the daughter of our commander in chief and if something happens it is breaking news." So does that mean if one of them broke a nail CNN should lead off with that story.
To whoever said that if this was Clinton's daughter there wouldn't be this many negative responses, You're an idiot. The only reason there would be fewer responses would be because her dad wasn't nearly as hated and rightfully so. I for one couldn't care less about the fact that this is Bush's daughter..... I'm mad that CNN buys into the celeb culture and considers this waste of space person who has no effect on my life "breaking news". I'd rather read about things that actually matter to me and to the rest of the world.
Is this the same "Jenna, the party girl!".
I'm chuckling that Hager was Karl Rove's lacky... did Karl engineer this thing?
And did all you ultra conservatives (who like to portray "liberals" as such moral-less people) notice that Jenna & Hager are "vacationing together" in Maine. Whooo– two rooms or one? Whooo– bad nasty people.
The whole thing is such a friggin' joke!
The father of Jenna's new fiance:
-Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia
-Former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (appointed to this position by George W. Bush on May 24, 2004)
-Co-chaired the Senatorial campaign for Oliver North
-Served as the director of Virginia's homeland security
-Elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Hager
Dude. How could you NOT care? Tau's taking over the White House in 2012. Andy Tennille=Secretary of Agriculture. This is totally newsworthy.
I prefer the good ole days of Jenna making news by being so wasted she could barely stand... ::sigh::
Good luck to both!
-Steven Burda
This story should not have made it on CNN.
I am a loser. How do I know? I'm commenting on this blog. Anyone who wastes time and resources complaining about CNN (and/or the Bush family) over this item is a loser.
wow, yesterday it was the right whining, now, today, it's the lefties moaning. Can't please anyone, can ya, CNN? :0P Congrats to the Bush family!
Who cares!
I agree with Matthew from Skokie. That said, I have to say this is LESS than "news"! UN-newsworthy items I'd rather hear about than this - and I had a gut full of them all when they were "news":
- more on Anna Nicole Smith;
- Paris Hilton;
- Nicole Ritchie;
- Spears/Federline (I'm making myself sick...);
- Lindsay Lohan;
and it was all I could do to list those! She's marrying a Rove-lodyte? There's just no accounting for taste....
Dipwads! No one cared when Chelsea had a BF, no one cared when Bill had an affair... the only ones that care about this stuff are the conservatives, because it distracts the commoners from your ineptitude at running a nation.
I am happy for her as a person. Granted it may have warranted being in the news. It did not warrant being a breaking news, e-mail generating media frenzy.
Give the woman some space and concentrate on her daddy's silliness.
LOVELY!!! The world doesn't need any more Bush's running around. See! Proof evolution and natural selection has it's flaws....
Sort of interesting that so many felt this was a "nonnews"...but so many took the time to read it and expressed their opinions.
There has got to be something more news worthy then this.
What next a CNN exclusive, in depth report on the bathroom habits of the President?
For Pamela in GA: Make up your mind (wide or narrow) what you are upset about, CNN's reporting or Jenna's engagement? Or are you upset that there's a hint of a good news coming out of Washington for a change that involves a republican? My guess is the later.
I guess now Barbara will have to either get married or see if Lindsey Lohan can give her a ride home after her Saturday night parties.
Oh wait, Noel's gotten out of the pharmaceutical business hasn't she? She should have some free time on her hands.
I'm happy. She's a beautiful lady.
Frank from NJ....you rock.
I'd hate to see the spawn of this couple.....
It's first words.."Hee hee, I'm the decider!"
It's good that the president gets to enjoy the news of his daughter's engagement, too bad the thousands of parents whose sons and daughters he has already sent to die and those who will continue to die in his senseless war cannot enjoy the same feelings. Him and his entire family will forever be stained with the blood he has pointlessly shed in Iraq. God bless and protect our troops.
You liberals are pathetic, this is simply a blurb about the 1st daughter getting married and nothing else.
You bring up one time where she had a few brews and got buzzed and that was a big deal, Gores son got CAUGHT WITH DRUGS, SPEEDING etc, etc and many on the other side of the aisle like myself tried to take the "high road" (No pun intended) and wish him a speedy recovery and the desire to see him get help. Pathetic.
If this was Chelsea Clinton I would write just what I wrote about Jenna.
Good luck to them both.
Good grief to you losers that can't say anything nice.
Is that part of your so enlightened, progressive and we are smarter than everyone thinking? Again, pathetic.
Congrats to Jenna, I hope her and her intended live a happy long life together.
I'd want to change my name too!
Bush's spawn mating with Rove's minion ... oh, the horror.
Good for her and I wish her well. I fail to see how this is going to help in raising the President's ratings by
making this Breaking News. People get engaged everyday and there is a section of the newspapers for these type of announcements. Breaking News is the latest on the Mine rescue efforts. I don't see anything on that.
Bush's spawn mating with Rove's minion... oh, the horror.
I'd just like to point out that you don't have to be a liberal to think this is a bit of a ridiculous news piece in this particular forum. I'm as conservative as one can get, and I too was annoyed by it...so much so that I took a moment to comment not only on the story but on the comments themselves
It does make it look as though the White House is desperate for good press...just wait for the report on how we're doing in Iraq, guys!!
Let's see:
Hundred dead in Peruvian earthquake.
Thousands dead in Asian flooding.
Miners still trapped.
Inadequate bridges all over America.
Death toll could reach 500 in recent bombings in Iraq.
Major offensive in Afghanistan against the Taliban.
Now let's see: If perpetual party girl Jenna, who has had her stomach pumped and has entered rehab to curb her reckless drug and alcohol abuse did ANYTHING charitable to help the flood/earthquake victims, THEN I could possibly care about this story.
She is a spoiled, irresponsible brat who has millions, doesn't have to worry about health care or where to buy her prescription drugs.
I guess I am tuning in to BBC World News from now on. At least they tell me stuff that MATTERS!!!!!!
Gee, Steve from Phoenix....no wonder there are always terrible, bad stories on the news sensationalized to the point of being nauseating. It's because of people like you who only want to see the bad stuff. I get stuck behind you on the freeway everyday while you slow down to stare at the car wreck in the other lane. Why not some happy, light-hearted news for once?
This is why news stations sit around and hope for a school bus full of kids to crash into an old folks home full of nuns. Bad news brings ratings because people like you can't get enough of it. Just look at your examples of all the stories that CAA SHOULD have on the front page. Ugh.
I can't help but think of Wedding Crashers and Christopher Walken...
James Carville definitely won't make a cameo at this big shot GOP matrimony.
Anyone want to be my Owen Wilson?
There's one more twin left...
I only date progressives, but a wedding reception doesn't count...especially if we get our story straight...
I'll be an Iraq war vet campaigning for Mitt Romney!
What's your story?
To Barbas from Hot City, TX:
You bet I slow down and look at car wrecks. I AM A PARAMEDIC!!! I save the lives of people like you who like only fluff in the news.
I am only saying, please tell me something on the news (i.e. bad infrastructure in America) and affects ALL OF US.
Yes, I may even slow down for you.
Congratulations to the two of them. However why is this breaking news?
Have we, as a country, become so cynical and politically divided that we can't even take a break from our differences to just be happy for a couple planning to celebrate upcoming nuptials. You all should be ashamed. I, for one, wish them all the best.
Wow, a few people compared a marriage announcement to be of the same importance as someone's son being deplored to Irag. If a “liberal” had made these kinds of comparisons the right wing folks would have jumped all over them. Well anyhooo, I wish them well and hopefully their children won’t take after their dad or grandfather’s side of the family
Sounds like it should be on Jay Leno’s News Clips.
Sounds like HAGGARD BUSH, spelled Hagar Bush, close enough for a dyslectic.
Why would anyone not want to wish Jenna n' Henry well. What does it say about a person who spews hatred at someone who hasn't done anything to hurt or harm you. What does it say that you actually have disdain for someone who is simply announcing they're getting married.
Congratulations, Jenna and Henry !
You "compassionate" libs are so miserable. Jenna and her fiance have their free agency as to what they will do with their lives, and I'm sure it won't be writing hateful messages on CNN. Guess what? They are not puppets of their fathers, and have nothing to do with her father's decision to go to war with Iraq, which I agree with, incidentally, and by the way and so did Bill Clinton, Hillary, Kerry, Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc., etc., and by the way all these same democrats stated that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, even while Bill Clinton was President. Didn't you know that??? Well check it out on the Internet for the dates, times and places they said it.
Search "Democrats WMD's Dates"
And try to stop acting like idiots.
I wonder if they're going to join the Peace Corps or the U.S. Army to carry on this Fight for Freedom in the Middle East after they tie the knot? Hard-core Republicans they are, they'll probably skip the war "thing".
Yes you idiots it IS breaking news..it just happened and it's the daughter of a sitting President! You can bet if Billary's only child had gotten engaged that it would have made every news outlet in the country and the country would have been giddy with excitment. Congratulations to a beautiful young lady and her future husband. You all should stand back and read your ridiculous comments. You are all a bunch of hardened, jealous, apathetic, insensitive creeps. I hope that in your miserable lifetimes that you will give to your country what this woman is going to have to give (and giveup) in order to serve as she has done as the child of a President and in the future as a wife of a Politician! Go do something POSITIVE and VOLUNTEER somewhere instead of sitting there and sounding like 80 year old complaining hags with nothing better to do with your town than to rip-up and tear down other people!
I have no problem with CNN running the story. It IS the president's daughter. But breaking news? Hardly.
Whew, look at those pedigrees. We cross a huge ocean and fought off all types of people to get away from nobility, and here we are today.
And a prodigy of Rove getting married to a Bush? Isn't that a requirement to the rise of Cthulhu or something?
I hope that they keep Dad away from the "football" if hes going to be drinking at the wedding.
Blah...B lah
WHO CARES!!
The number of hateful comments on here is truly amazing. Probably by Fox News haters. No wonder this is known as the Clinton News Network! Can't you people just say How Nice? or Good Luck? Im curious how they would react if Chelsea Clinton got engaged. Sheesh, lighten up.
I find it amazing that others are quick to call anyone with a "who cares" attitude, "lefties," "liberals" etc...when:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
Try thinking for yourselves for once; these people are right...I don't care if it IS news; jenna's daddy has sold Americans out, in multiple ways.
To Steve:
Great! Thats all we need is another paramedic with a GOD complex. Do you use that line to pick up women too?
All I'M saying is news stations report bad things for people like you. They shovel it out and you eat it up. And, don't give me that crap about wanting to hear about issues that affect "ALL OF US". Peruvian earthquake, Asian flood, mine collapse......these affect YOU in what way? Are you a miner too???
It's quite newsworthy. This will be the first president to have a daughter married in the whitehouse since Nixon. (That is of course if they marry before Jan 2009...which I am sure they will do)
Whatever happened to a general respect for the office of President, whether you agree with all his policies or not? He is our president.
Go ahead and move to a country with a dictator or a King who requires you to bow down to him...be at least a little thankful for the democracy we live in.
How depressing. I was hoping this blood line would STOP. Instead, we get a breeding pair. Another body blow to the gene pool.
But yeah, who really cares?
Looks like the majority of people feel the same way I do...Who the heck cares and WHY was this even put on the news...national network news in addition to cable news!!
Bush's child + man who worked with rove = devil spawn
God help us.
To answer all the "who cares" and "why is this news" people mabye CNN is trying to overcome there rep as the Constantly Negitive News outlet
TO MARY H, VALATIE NY,
No need for all the name calling here, you almost sound like a Paris Hilton fan. Now, the fact is what everyone finds laughable in your comments is that you actually seem to think, in a twisted sort of demented way, that being a president's child is some form of service to this country, and you call others idiots?? If her life or that of her twin is so miserable as members of the first family, then please let her father resign if only to give them a normal life. You comments are such moral rubbish that they almost warrant no response, but let me put you in your place. Politicians choose that path in life knowing full well how it might impact their families. I don't here anyone in the first family complaining about life unless they hired you to do it for them.
Finally, please don't try patronizing us by suggesting that the priviledge of being born into wealth and fame is somewhat a service or sacrifice and should be somehow rewarded with blind admiration and zero criticism. Go ask a starving child in Darfur what hard living and sacrifice means, and get off your snobby unicorn for a second and smell the crap in you comments.
I can't believe CNN just had to mention that this guy worked with Rove, who CNN and all of the radical left-wing media hate. They just could not help themselves.
Many here are being quite petty. If Chelsea got engaged, it would also be top news. This is not an "arranged marriage"; Chelsea has also been frequently linked with guys whose parents are politically strong in the Dem party and will likely marry a powerfully linked Dem. That's just the way these things go – for instance, Julie Nixon married an Eisenhower.
You haters out there need help, serious help. You don't need to hate Jenna, just because you don't like her dad. I don't dislike Chelsea just because I have no respect for her parents.
She is hawking a book... she learned her lesson well, no talent, no soul... sell something. Looks like a marriage made in.... Damon had it right, why is she not in fatigues, NOT wearing dragon's skin, huddling behind a unarmored humvy in the middle of Falujah, Doesn;t she support the troops? Doesn't she support her dad? Kids these days... such rebels. lol
my cousin is getting married to. if she comes home from iraq.