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Friday, May 12, 2006
The Tony Snow Show premieres
First, the news from new White House Press Secretary Tony Snow’s first press briefing: President Bush will address the nation from the Oval Office on Monday night. Immigration will be the topic.
And now some background on today’s first briefing. Snow declared it a failure. Not on substance, but on venue. Snow moved the morning briefing – an off-camera event known as the “gaggle” – out of the briefing room and into his office. Gaggles had been held in the press secretary’s office until 9/11 when the reporter crowd became too large to handle in that room.
Snow thought it was a good idea to move it back to the office. That idea was shot down due to the size of today’s attendance, about 50 who placed about 30 recording devices on Snow’s desk. He now plans to move it back to the briefing room.
Snow also apologized for the timing of the event. It was scheduled for 9 a.m., moved back to 9:30 a.m. but actually started about 9:20 a.m., which means those who showed up at 9:30 a.m. missed the beginning, including the announcement of Bush’s Monday night speech.
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