I wonder if she calls her fiance "turd blossom".
Jenna gonna wed ex-Rove intern
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BY KENNETH R. BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Friday, August 17th 2007, 4:00 AM
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Jenna Bush with her soon-to-be hubby, Henry Hager.
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PAY ATTENTION, HANK!
Henry Hager, the new fiancé of Jenna Bush, didn't ask the Daily News for advice. But we're giving it to him anyway. Heaven knows, the guy will need it.
DON'T:
• Encourage your father-in-law to take advantage of the open bar at your wedding. Same goes for the bride.
• Make plans for the month of August until at least 2030. You'll be vacationing on the Bush family ranch in Crawford, Tex. Ribs, rodeos and those line-dancing routines may grow on you - eventually.
• Go hunting with Dick Cheney. Even if it means a weekend pass from Crawford.
• Hang a "Mission Accomplished" sign outside the honeymoon suite.
• Gripe about your father-in-law's nickname for you, even if it's "Hanky."
DO:
• Take a class in the Heimlich maneuver in case of another pretzel scare. Laura, at least, will thank you.
• Speak to Dad in two-syllable words - max. And learn to pronounce "nuclear" as "nucular," so you don't show him up.
• Demand that your friends surrender their photos of you smoking pot or mooning the camera -before they wind up in the National Enquirer.
• Stick by your cronies through thick, thin and thinner, no matter how much they embarrass you.
• Remember at all times who "The Decider" is, even if the question is "grilled or crispy?"
WASHINGTON - Wild Jenna Bush is getting married - to a former Karl Rove intern!
The 25-year-old First Daughter was engaged Wednesday to Henry Hager, 29, a former White House and Commerce Department aide and son of Virginia's Republican Party chairman.
Hager, who also worked for the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, popped the question in Maine, where Jenna is staying at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport. Twin sister Barbara, who is still single, also was seen at the compound recently.
A White House statement yesterday said, "No wedding date has been set."
It could be a lengthy engagement, since Hager returns to the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business this fall.
"He's a great guy," said a Bush insider who first met Hager when he was an intern working for Rove. "He had a lot of friends at the White House, the campaign and over at Commerce."
It has been more than a 2-1/2-year courtship by Hager, who was once written off as "not a serious boyfriend" by his future mother-in-law.
Their engagement wasn't unexpected. Hager once pretended to propose to Bush at a restaurant, but the piece of paper he solemnly handed her was a gag. Jenna was reportedly aghast for a moment over that stunt.
But apparently he worked some magic on the previously world-renowned party girl.
White House insiders insist that the days of Jenna getting busted for underage drinking in bars, raucous parties at her University of Texas alma mater and unflattering photos of late-night partying at swank Georgetown club Smith Point are ancient history.
Last November, the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires suggested the twins cut short their visit out of security concerns over their rambunctious late-night socializing. They kept partying anyway.
Now, the world sees a grownup Jenna, a well-traveled schoolteacher-turned author whose book about an AIDS sufferer, "Ana's Story," is to be published this fall.
Since there has been no date set, no one is saying for sure whether the lovebirds will take their vows at the White House or opt for an Atlantic backdrop in Kennebunkport.
A White House wedding would be the first for a President's daughter since Tricia Nixon married Edward Cox in 1971 in the Rose Garden.
But it's going to be one big, happy GOP family. Hager's dad, John, is a former Bush administration assistant secretary of education, ex-lieutenant governor of Virginia and a retired tobacco company executive.
"This might be one of the last good stories out of this administration," lamented a longtime Bush aide.
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