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Article: Bush Names Rove Political Strategist; Choice Completes Troika Of White House Advisers
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- The Washington Post
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- January 5, 2001
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President-elect Bush named his top political strategist to hold a
similar role in the White House, completing a troika of advisers that
will dominate decision-making in the Bush White House.
The three -- Karl Rove, today named to be Bush's senior adviser,
designated chief of staff Andrew Card and designated counselor Karen
Hughes -- will have approximately equal power and separate spheres of
influence, Bush aides say. In the arrangement, similar to the first
Reagan administration's troika of Michael Deaver, Edwin Meese III and
James A. Baker III, Rove will govern strategic and political
decisions, Hughes will create the public face of the White House, and