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Article: Hughes exit to leave huge White House comms void.(Presidential advisor Karen Hughes resigns from White House duties )
- Article from:
- PR Week (US)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2002
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WASHINGTON: The White House communications team will lose its first lady of message development and its last line of defense when Karen Hughes, counselor to the President and one of his most loyal advisors, leaves the Oval Office later this summer.
Hughes was President Bush's original director of communications, relinquishing the post in April 2001 to take on a more comprehensive role. But according to those who worked with her, Hughes' influence over the administration's message only increased with the move to counselor. Nearly every piece of White House communication received her input or approval before leaving the building.
'She's the chief traffic ...