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Snow Lands in White House
President Bush this morning introduced Tony Snow of Fox News as the new White House press secretary. Snow will replace Scott McClellan, who announced his resignation last week.
“My job is to make decisions and his job is to help explain those decisions to the press corps and the American people,” Bush said in the White House Briefing Room, flanked by Snow and McClellan. “He understands, like I understand, that the press is vital to our democracy.”
Snow, a White House speechwriter when the current president’s dad was in office, told reporters, “One of the things I want to do is just make it clear that one of the reason I took the job is not only because I believe in the president, because, believe it or not, I want to work with you. These are times that are going to be very challenging.”
Bush noted that Snow, as a commentator, “sometimes has disagreed with me.” Earlier this year, after Bush’s State of the Union Address, Snow wrote that the speech “distilled the essence of his presidency … brilliant foreign policy and listless domestic policy.”
Bush today joked about Snow’s criticism, saying “I asked him about those comments, and he said, ‘You should have heard what I said about the other guy.’”
After the brief announcement, Bush, Snow and McClellan left the room while ignoring reporters’ questions.
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