Tony Snow Leaving White House
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WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Tony Snow the highly visible will leave his job on September 14 and be replaced by his deputy, Dana Perino, an administration official said today.
President Bush was to announce the changes during an appearance in the White House briefing room.
Mr. Snow, ailing with cancer, had said recently he would leave before the end of Mr. Bush’s presidency because he needs to make more money.
The 52-year-old Mr. Snow was a conservative pundit and syndicated talk-show host on Fox News Radio before he was named press secretary on April 26, 2006. He is the latest in a string of White House officials to head for the exits.
Today was the last day of work for political strategist Karl Rove. Others who have left since Democrats won control of Congress are counselor Dan Bartlett, White House attorney Harriet Miers, budget director Rob Portman, political director Sara Taylor, deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch, and another deputy national security adviser who worked on Iraq, Meghan O’Sullivan.
Mr. Snow has been undergoing chemotherapy after doctors discovered a recurrence of colon cancer in March.
