CRAWFORD -- Saturday's wedding of 26-year-old Jenna Bush, one of President and Laura Bush's twin daughters, will not be televised. Amid the spring wildflowers on the president's 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch, it will be a private affair. Extremely private.

High-tech fences, surveillance cameras and untold numbers of Secret Service agents will keep the uninvited miles away. Federal Aviation Administration rules -- and military aircraft -- will ensure that paparazzi lenses will be nowhere in the nearby sky.

Celebrity gawkers of the political variety might be disappointed. But historians and political observers say the nation -- at war, afflicted by economic malaise and ready to be done with this president -- is in no mood to watch lavish nuptials unfold at the White House.

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