--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush Read Their Letter to Sasha and Malia Obama  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jan 13, 2017 3:37 PM UTC  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. 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"}}]}] ```