Word: rove
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There was visible relief at the White House when, after Bush's top strategist, Karl Rove, dropped some hints to Fox Radio's Tony Snow that Bush might look favorably on a slowdown of the deal, Dubai Ports World announced it would delay taking over the port operations. That announcement gave the Administration, should it need one, a face-saving way to send the deal back to an interagency group for a 45-day review, buying more time to sell it to Congress. Said White House press secretary Scott McClellan: "We believe that once Congress has a better understanding...
...beef for dinner and got periodic reports from two guests who had gone to the hospitals along with Whittington's wife Mercedes. The Secret Service notified local authorities, and a traveling aide to the Vice President gave a heads-up to the White House Situation Room. Bush adviser Karl Rove called Armstrong between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. to ask about Whittington--who, like Armstrong, is a friend of Rove's--and learned of Cheney's role in the accident...
...control is Get the news out fast, the second is Don't embarrass the boss. Breaking both rules at once is a poor idea. White House counselor Dan Bartlett, communications director Nicolle Wallace and McClellan all recommended to Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card, and his deputy Karl Rove on Sunday, the day after the shooting, that the White House make an immediate statement and were alarmed that the whole system seemed to have seized up, according to several Republican sources...
...know until Sunday morning that we could be confident that everything was probably going to be okay," Cheney said.? Cheney did not talk to White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. until Sunday morning, and said he doesn't recall talking to Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove about it. The first time he talked to Bush about it was Monday, and then again on Tuesday...
...enormously important. I had no press person with me. I didn't have any press people with me. I was there on a private weekend with friends on a private ranch." He said Armstrong "was a good mutual friend," and noted that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove has also hunted at the Armstrong ranch...