Friends and classmates of Barbara Bush, one of President George W. Bush's twin daughters, say she too likes to party, even though she is generally described as the quiet and studious twin, Newsweek reports. Barbara is said to be more discreet than her twin Jenna, though not always. Last October, Barbara was caught using a fake ID at a New Haven bar called Toad's Place, Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas and White House a Correspondent Martha Brant report in the June 11 issue (on newsstands Monday, June 4). The security guard did not call the police, but he kept the ID, which is now framed and hanging in his living room.
The fake ID identifies the president's daughter as "Barbara Pierce" (her grandmother's maiden name), adds exactly three years to her birth date, and gives a fake Baltimore, MD. address. Some friends call Barbara "the instigator," and say that Jenna is the unlucky one who gets blamed.
Last week, Jenna was caught using a borrowed ID card to buy a margarita at a restaurant in Austin, TX. The incident resulted in Jenna and sister Barbara being cited by authorities for underage drinking and marked Jenna's second brush with the law in less than two months. Some Texas reporters who have long covered the Bush family have dubbed Jenna "Barbara's revenge," meaning that George W. is now getting his just desserts for tormenting his own mother as a boy.
A former White House child blames the media for the attention the twins are getting. Ron Reagan Jr. tells Newsweek the real story is not "something as mundane as trying to buy beer with a borrowed ID, something that happens 10,000 times a day in every college town in America. The story is the media's inability to resist the lure of ratings and circulation."
