Tuesday 24 April 2001
How Bush twin gave Secret Service the slip
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Barbara Bush: she 'urged the driver
to top 100mph' to lose Secret Service escort
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By Ben Fenton in Washington
GEORGE W BUSH'S determination to keep his 20-year-old twin girls out of the
glare of publicity suffered a setback yesterday with the publication of
allegations that his daughter Barbara "shook off" her Secret Service escort.
Mr Bush and his wife Laura have made clear to the White House press corps
that the lives of Miss Bush and her sister Jenna are strictly off-limits and
transgressors have received harsh treatment from the White House.
But following a story in a student magazine at his own alma mater, Yale
University, where Miss Bush is a first-year undergraduate, the President has
found himself facing the same sort of problems that have troubled former
occupants of the Oval Office.
The story in the magazine, Rumpus, alleged that Miss Bush had given the slip
to the Secret Service officers assigned to protecting her. It said that she
was travelling with friends from the university in Connecticut to New York
to watch a World Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden last
month.
The student driving the car used an electronic chip that allows motorists to
pass automatically through toll booths on the city's motorway system. "[The
Secret Service] didn't have a pass so after they paid their toll, they put
on their sirens and sped 120mph until they caught up with us," the magazine
quoted one passenger in the car as saying.
In another reported incident, a girl who shares a dormitory with Miss Bush,
whose sister is at university in Austin, Texas, was asked by a Secret
Service bodyguard if she knew where Barbara was or whether she would have
her mobile phone switched on.
The university was furious with the magazine's editors, who were given a
severe reprimand and ordered to retrieve and destroy all copies of Rumpus
and delete the internet edition of the story.
But the damage was done and the story was out, appearing in fuller form
yesterday in the Star, a sensationalist "supermarket" tabloid similar to the
notorious National Enquirer magazine.
The magazine added fresh details to the Rumpus allegations, claiming that
Miss Bush had egged on the driver to exceed 100mph and "lose" the Secret
Service vehicles. It also linked the story to a incident involving her
mother, who at 17 was accidentally responsible for the death of a close
friend in a car crash in 1963.
The mainstream American press seems to have respected the request of the
Bush family for privacy by ignoring the story, although a version did run
for one edition in the Washington Post.
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