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Mixing Politics and Celebrity

By Patt Morrison

Published August 31, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

President Bush's twin daughters were treated like movie stars when they arrived at a New York party celebrating the Republican Convention. Los Angeles Times columnist Patt Morrison says the glamour factor is a staple at political conventions.

Patt Morrison

Patt Morrison is a writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where her work has spanned topics from national political profiles and campaign coverage to the O.J. Simpson case, the Los Angeles riots, the Persian Gulf war, the Olympics, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Super Bowl, and Britain's royal family, including the death and funeral of the Princess of Wales.

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