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RESIGNING. ARI FLEISCHER, 42, CHRISTIE TODD WHITMAN, 56, and TOMMY FRANKS, 57; from top Bush Administration posts; in Washington. Fleischer will step down after 2 1/2 years as press secretary, serving as the President's relentlessly on-message spokesman on everything from the Enron scandals to the war in Iraq; to work in the private sector. Whitman, after a rocky tenure as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, said she was leaving because she and her husband were tired of having a "commuter" marriage. Franks, the Army general who commanded U.S. forces during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 2, 2003 | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...late March, when Iraqi Fedayeen were putting up surprising resistance to invading U.S. forces, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer faced an obvious question: was the fighting more fierce than the administration had anticipated? The answer was yes, of course; even commanders on the ground were saying so. But not Fleischer. He said the president believed that military progress was "ahead of schedule." Then he ridiculed reporters for demanding to know why, after less than a week of fighting, the war wasn't over yet - when no reporter had asked such a thing. What he never did was concede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice to Ari Fleischer's Replacement | 5/27/2003 | See Source »

...information. "There is a fairly large group of Democrats who think there's a great lesson in this," says Joe Lockhart, who held Fleischer's job under President Clinton. But can the Fleischer Method be mimicked? Here are three topics that will test the truth-stretching skills of Ari's successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice to Ari Fleischer's Replacement | 5/27/2003 | See Source »

...RESIGNED. ARI FLEISCHER, 42, CHRISTIE TODD WHITMAN, 56, and TOMMY FRANKS, 57; from top Bush administration posts; in Washington. Fleischer will step down to work in the private sector after two-and-a-half years as press secretary, serving as the President's relentlessly on-message and sometimes unctuous spokesman on everything from the Enron scandals to the war in Iraq. Whitman, perennially sidelined chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, said she and her husband were tired of having a "commuter" marriage. Franks, the Army general who commanded U.S. forces during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is retiring after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...really want to unwind, do something more relaxing-like dismantle live nuclear weapons." Ari Fleischer, joking about why he is leaving his job as White House Press Secretary

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

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