[Vision2020] Rove Steps Down, Says He Wasn't Forced to Quit

[Tom Hansen]

My guess is that Rove will show up as a campaign manager in McCain's
campaign.

 

>From CNN -

 

 

Rove says he was not forced to quit 

 

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Karl Rove said Monday his resignation as President
Bush's senior political adviser was not forced, and that he plans to spend
his post-White House career writing a book and teaching. 

 

Perhaps Bush's most powerful White House aide, Rove submitted his
resignation to Bush on Friday, he told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux in an e-mail.

 

When asked for his reaction to those who say he's being "run out of town,"
Rove responded, "That sounds like the rooster claiming to have called up the
sun." 

 

Rove has been the target of congressional scrutiny as he and other White
House staffers have been subpoenaed by Congress to testify in the case of
several fired U.S. attorneys.

 

Both Rove and the president are expected to speak before boarding Marine One
at the White House at 11:35 a.m. ET. Bush will head to his Crawford, Texas,
ranch where he will remain for the rest of the week.

 

A senior administration official described Rove's agony over the decision,
and how "he and his family struggled" over it and why "this is a good as
time as any."

 

"You're never going to replace him," said another senior administration
official, adding that Rove served a "unique role."

 

"It's up to [White House Chief of Staff] Josh [Bolten] whether he'll be
replaced," the official said. 

 

Rove plans to write a book about his days with Bush and eventually teach
politics on the university level.

 

"Obviously it's a big loss to us, said deputy White House press secretary
Dana Perino. "He is a great colleague, good friend and a brilliant mind."

 

Rove, who has held a top position in the White House since Bush took office
in January 2001, is to stand down on August 31.  Watch why the announcement
is so significant >

 

Both Rove and Scott Jennings, who is a special assistant to the president
and deputy political director, were subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary
Committee, which is investigating the fired attorneys case. 

 

Rove did not testify as ordered by the subpoena earlier this month, which
angered panel Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont. White House Counsel
Fred Fielding informed the committee that Rove, "as an immediate adviser to
the president," can't be ordered to testify and was told by the White House
not to attend.

 

Bush nicknamed Rove "the architect" for creating the plan that won the White
House in 2000 and 2004. 

 

Rove told The Wall Street Journal that he'd first suggested the idea of
leaving about a year ago. However a series of problems for the Bush
administration, starting when the Democrats took control of Congress and
then as immigration and the Iraq war topped the agenda, made the enormously
powerful Rove stay on.

 

But one of Bush's most trusted advisers claimed his hand was forced when
Bolten announced that any senior staff working past Labor Day [September 3]
would be expected to stay on until the end of Bush's term. 

 

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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"In America, anybody can become president. 
That's one of the risks you take . . ."

- Adlai Stevenson

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