Her legal troubles marred the early months of her father's presidency. Now her marriage may be the highlight of the waning months of the Bush Administration.

Jenna Bush is getting married.

Is a White House wedding in the works? Jenna Bush, one of President Bush's twin daughters, is engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend, Henry Hager, the White House announced Thursday.

Asked if the two were getting married in the Rose Garden, Sally McDonough, press secretary for first lady Laura Bush, replied: "They have not set any details, date or place."

Jenna Bush, 25, and Hager, 29, were engaged Wednesday in Maine, she said.

The two have been dating for several years, and Hager is often seen at Jenna Bush's side at Bush family functions and formal events, such as a White House dinner in November 2005 in honor of Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

Here's hoping that America can put all partisanship aside and wish this young couple nothing but happiness.

But I would like to comment on what may be the most absurd and disrespectful attempt to take a shot at the President -- courtesy, of course, of the New York Times.

President Bush, who has been the sole male in his nuclear family with the exception, perhaps, of his dog Barney, will finally have a son-in-law.

WTF? That sort of lede really has no place in a story of this sort.

On the other hand, The Washington Post scored points with me with the anecdote they used to start this story.

Back in February 2005, Laura Bush was asked about the guy her daughter Jenna was seeing. "This is not a serious boyfriend -- I hate to have to be the one to say it on television," said the first lady. "But he's a very nice young man."

And one not easily dissuaded. Henry Hager proposed marriage to Jenna on Wednesday in Maine. She said yes.

Maybe I just a sucker for silly courtship stories. Or maybe it is the fact that my mother-in-law still has the letter in which my wife offers a not so flattering commentary on me after our first meeting -- two weeks before we began dating and fourteen months before our wedding. Persistence pays off.

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