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...basement had been decorated with "One Tough Grandma" bumper stickers, lawn signs and T-shirts from the independent gubernatorial campaign of McClellan's mother, Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn. In her folksy lilt, Strayhorn had recorded a farewell greeting in which she said she had an urgent assignment...
...Avenue from his old office, had been on the job just one full day when Rob Portman, the Trade ambassador and a strong communicator, was named to succeed him as director of the Office of Management and Budget. The next morning, press secretary Scott McClellan appeared on the South Lawn with Bush to announce to reporters in a choked voice that he would leave his job in two or three weeks, a few months short of three years at the podium. McClellan, considered "family" because he had worked for Bush in the Texas Governor's office, made no effort...
...hours after the South Lawn appearance, the White House announced that Karl Rove, whose name is synonymous with unchecked authority in this Administration, would be yielding his day-to-day policy duties. "I've been asked by the President and my new boss to focus on big strategic questions and the bigger issues," Rove told TIME. The idea, according to an aide, is for Rove to focus on "immigration, not the definition of seaward lateral boundaries." But Rove relishes his role at the nexus of policy and politics, and had dived into the governing responsibilities Bush gave...
...without any real progress on these issues, Hu's first visit to the White House was marked more by visuals than anything else. There was the well-choreographed arrival on the South Lawn, which was upset by a "journalist" for a newspaper run by the Falun Gong, who protested China's crackdown on the religious sect. "Of course we knew she was with a Falun Gong paper," said a senior Administration official trying to explain the snafu. "But if we'd kept her out, the world would have screamed that we were guilty of censorship." So her cries came...
...between a festive 21-gun salute on the South Lawn and a well-choreographed working lunch for 200, complete with Nashville bluegrass band, President Bush plans to sit down with Chinese president Hu Jintao in the Oval Office to discuss international security issues. Topic A, White House aides say, will be Iran...