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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My guess is that Rove will show up as a campaign manager in
McCain’s campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>From CNN -<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Rove says he was not forced to quit <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
attorneys.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:State>,
ranch where he will remain for the rest of the week.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"You're never going to replace him," said another
senior administration official, adding that Rove served a "unique
role."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"It's up to [White House Chief of Staff] Josh [Bolten]
whether he'll be replaced," the official said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Rove plans to write a book about his days with Bush and
eventually teach politics on the university level.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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 »<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Bush nicknamed Rove "the architect" for creating
the plan that won the White House in 2000 and 2004. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
war topped the agenda, made the enormously powerful Rove stay on.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Seeya
round town, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<br>
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Tom Hansen<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place><br>
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"In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
anybody can become president. <br>
That's one of the risks you take . . ."<br>
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- Adlai Stevenson<br>
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