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Article: Bush loses White House balance with adviser's exit; Karen Hughes: She leaves Monday but still will offer advice from Texas
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2002
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The day before his inauguration, George W. Bush
pointed to Karen Hughes at a staff meeting and told his other top
advisers, "I don't want any important decision made without her in
the room."
Bush's order was strictly enforced. No major presidential
conclusion, event or public utterance has escaped the eyes and ears
of Hughes - perhaps the most influential woman ever to have served a
president.
But now the White House counselor is leaving the room. She ends an
18-month run at the White House on Monday, creating a Texas-sized
vacuum in the orbit of presidential advisers.
"She won't be here every single day to hear every single thing
that's going on in the White House, which ...