Word: hugheses
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Bush's message was aimed at the home front, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee reported a sharp drop in attacks against Arab Americans in the days after he spoke. But the impact overseas was even more dramatic. The White House heard instantly from its embassies in the Middle...
The President's two most trusted White House aides, Karl Rove and Karen Hughes, last week quietly began soliciting ideas from G.O.P. consultants and public-relations executives for ways to keep Americans focused on the war effort even as the life of the nation struggles to return to normal. Proposals...
He'd been out of sight, but right by the President's side. After Cheney's "Meet the Press" performance, word leaked that Bush advisers Karen Hughes and Karl Rove thought he had been too good - that he had seemed too fully in charge. Both have denied trying to rein...
Cheney retains his influence by holding his tongue. In most larger meetings - of the Cabinet, say, or with congressional leaders - he sits silently at the President's side, rationing his words for maximum impact. "The smaller the meeting, the more he says," says Hughes. Cheney puts it another way: "I...
Some of the quotidian expressions of political activity, like party fund raising, have been curtailed. Karl Rove, the President's chief political strategist, continues to make sure that key constituencies are not forgotten; but for the first time in Bush's political life, Rove and Hughes no longer attend the...