{"id":33212,"date":"2004-09-29T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33212"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:55:45","slug":"bush-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/09\/29\/bush-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush twins visit Bates, a presidential campaign crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/09\/72twins8388.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/09\/72twins8388.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Barbara and Jenna Bush\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President George W. Bush&#8217;s daughters, Jenna and Barbara, visited the  Bates College campus today to extend a thank-you to Bates Republicans  for continued efforts to re-elect their father.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Approximately 125 students from Bates and other colleges attended an  invitation-only rally in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, where the  22-year-old twins addressed an SRO crowd and then circulated among them,  shaking hands and posing for photographs. Earlier in the day, the Bush  sisters attended a similar gathering in Orono at the University of  Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Chase Hall, scores of placard-holding student and  community protesters demonstrated during the visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/09\/72twinsprotestdh.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/09\/72twinsprotestdh.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Demonstrators protest\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bates has become a crossroads for presidential campaign  visits. Last week, social activist Peter Camejo, vice presidential  running mate for independent candidate Ralph Nader, addressed students  in a course about American protest in wartime, taught by Associate  Professor of History Hilmar Jensen. Yesterday, Chris Heinz, step-son of  Democratic candidate John Kerry, discussed campaign issues over lunch  with a group of students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President George W. Bush&#8217;s daughters, Jenna and Barbara, visited the Bates College campus today to extend a thank-you to Bates Republicans for continued efforts to re-elect their father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[31,32,195,17],"tags":[1372,10830],"class_list":["post-33212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiston-auburn","category-maine-and-new-england","category-news-politics","category-partners-public","tag-bates-college-republicans","tag-lewiston-auburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90593,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212\/revisions\/90593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}