--- title: Jenna Bush Hager & Barbara Bush Read To Sasha & Malia Obama description: Watch the Bush sisters read a letter they wrote to the Obama sisters canonical: https://time.com/4634386/jenna-bush-hager-barbara-bush-read-letter-sasha-malia-obama/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-13T15:37:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:09.137Z og:title: Watch Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush Read Their Letter to Sasha and Malia Obama og:description: It had advice for life after the White House og:url: https://time.com/4634386/jenna-bush-hager-barbara-bush-read-letter-sasha-malia-obama/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt031f3771a99423ed/6988b585656a3fcc94bce630/bush-sisters1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Black Tie & Boots Ball og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush Read Their Letter to Sasha and Malia Obama twitter:description: It had advice for life after the White House twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt031f3771a99423ed/6988b585656a3fcc94bce630/bush-sisters1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush Read Their Letter to Sasha and Malia Obama > Sponsored content. 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Jenna Bush (L) gestures as she and her sister, Barbara Bush, daughters of U.S. President George W. Bush, look at the crowd as they arrive at the Black Tie & Boots Ball on the eve of their father's inauguration, on Jan. 19, 2005. Matt Campbell—Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jan 13, 2017 3:37 PM UTC Former First Daughters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush appeared on the _Today_ Show Friday morning to read an [emotional letter they wrote to the Obama girls](http://time.com/4632036/bush-sisters-obama-sisters/?xid=homepage) as they prepare to leave the White House. The Bush sisters’ letter, originally published on [TIME](http://time.com/4632036/bush-sisters-obama-sisters/?xid=homepage), celebrated all the Obama sisters had experienced while they lived in the White House and the freedom they’d experience when they leave. --- > “” --- Watch them read their letter here: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4634386/jenna-bush-hager-barbara-bush-read-letter-sasha-malia-obama/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4634386/jenna-bush-hager-barbara-bush-read-letter-sasha-malia-obama/"},"headline":"Watch Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush Read Their Letter to Sasha and Malia Obama","datePublished":"2017-01-13T15:37:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:09.137Z","description":"They gave them advice for life after the White House","url":"https://time.com/4634386/jenna-bush-hager-barbara-bush-read-letter-sasha-malia-obama/","keywords":["Newsfeed","today show","malia obama","sisters","Barbara Bush"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt031f3771a99423ed/6988b585656a3fcc94bce630/bush-sisters1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt031f3771a99423ed/6988b585656a3fcc94bce630/bush-sisters1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Black Tie & Boots Ball","caption":"Black Tie & Boots Ball","creditText":"Matt Campbell—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4634386/jenna-bush-hager-barbara-bush-read-letter-sasha-malia-obama/","name":"Watch Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush Read Their Letter to Sasha and Malia Obama"}}]}] ```