Jenna Bush Hager has detailed the moment she discovered her father, former President George W. Bush, had been engaged before marrying her mother. The revelation came when Hager was in third grade and uncovered a wedding announcement while looking through her father's "memory box."

Her father had never spoken about his college romance, but Hager learned about it after receiving a poor grade on a math test. When she told her father he might have done the same thing as a child, he retrieved the box, which contained report cards and other keepsakes from his grandmother. It was within this box that she found the announcement of his engagement to Cathryn Lee Wolfman.

Bush and Wolfman met while he was a student at Yale University and she was attending Rice University. He proposed in 1967, according to an announcement in the Houston Chronicle. The engagement, however, did not lead to marriage, and the couple eventually separated.

George W. Bush went on to marry Laura Welch in November 1977. The couple welcomed twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, in November 1981.

Hager recounted her third-grade reaction to finding the wedding announcement, describing it as a "devastating moment" that made her cry. She recalled thinking, "good thing he called it off or we wouldn’t have been here."

George started dating a woman named Cathryn Lee Wolfman while he was a student at Yale and she was at Rice, and he popped the question in 1967, per an engagement notice in the Houston Chronicle. He's seen in his Yale portrait

During a recent episode of "Today," Hager praised her father's decision to call off the wedding, stating that "to be able to walk away" from a relationship demonstrates strength and the importance of listening to oneself.

Information about Bush's first love is limited. A 1967 Houston Chronicle notice stated: "George Walker Bush, son of Congressman-elect and Mrs. George H.W. Bush of Houston and Washington, will take pretty Cathryn Lee Wolfman as his bride." A spokesperson for Bush confirmed to the Houston Press in 1999 that he was briefly engaged in college to a "very fine person he thinks the world of," but they ultimately went their separate ways and did not maintain contact.

A 2000 Vanity Fair profile described Wolfman as a "fun-loving cheerleader" and a "dean's-list student" who was "totally apolitical." Friends of George W. Bush reportedly indicated that the relationship simply "fizzled out" due to their busy schedules. Wolfman later worked with the CIA after college.

The two never walked down the aisle and ultimately went their separate ways, with Bush going on to wed Laura in November 1977; they welcomed their twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, four years later in November 1981