PRESIDENTIAL RACE Bush twins join dad on campaign trail, a first

Jenna and Barbara recently graduated from college.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- It's a new thing -- so new that President Bush is still searching for just the right words of introduction.
His twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, are out with him now on the stump in what, win or lose, will be his last campaign, though maybe not theirs. They're only 22.
Jenna showed up first Friday, strolling with her father across the White House lawn to the Marine One helicopter ready to whisk them to Andrews Air Force Base -- and on to Pennsylvania for a campaign bus tour.
It was his fourth day on the bus for this campaign, Jenna's first.
"By the way, this is a special day for me," the president said, introducing his daughter for the first time in Kutztown, Pa. "One of our daughters, newly graduate of the University of Texas, is traveling with me."
"Jenna, thanks for coming," he said, proudly announcing to hundreds of supporters that she had already offered him a bit of earnest advice: "Dad, change your shirt."
At the next two stops, he announced offhand that she had graduated from UT in four years. "How about that," he said in Smoketown, Pa.
Barbara's there
On this two-day swing through the Great Lakes battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, daughter Barbara has been at her father's side.
She just graduated from Yale University, the alma mater of her father and grandfather, the 41st president. But Bush passes on that detail.
At a rally in Marquette, Mich., on Tuesday he introduced Barbara simply as a "newly graduate from college." And later in Duluth, Minn., he mentioned nothing about college at all.
"I love that you're here, darling," he said. "Thanks for coming."
At the Waukesha County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, he again passed on mentioning Yale, though he duly noted that Barbara also had "made it out of college in four years."
It's a new adventure for both of the president's daughters, neither having ventured off the sidelines of their father's earlier campaigns for governor and president.
Trip and office
They toured Europe for a few weeks after graduation and now share an office in the Bush-Cheney '04 headquarters in Arlington, Va., just across the Potomac River from the White House.
Their campaign debut is coupled with a glitzy photo spread in the latest issue of Vogue magazine -- surely no coincidence, and one their father has not acknowledged.
While Barbara campaigned with her father Wednesday, Jenna was out on the trail with her mother, Laura Bush.
Video cameras
Each twin has a small, high-quality video camera provided by Mark McKinnon, the Texas media consultant who's handling the president's ad campaign and the big-screen videos that have become staples of the national nominating conventions.
He said he hopes the twins will have some fun with the cameras and use them to record a few of the real behind-the-scenes moments of the campaign.
"We'll take a look at it," McKinnon said, expecting to review some of the video later, "and decide if we want to do anything with it."