Bedeviled by turmoil, Bush tries to reassure

Even after the indictment on Friday of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, [Bush] has no immediate plans to bring in fresh faces or fire any top aides, especially if his senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, escapes being charged in the CIA leak case....

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Published inDeseret news (Salt Lake City, Utah : 1964)
Main Author Richard W. Stevenson and Robin Toner New York Times News Service
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Salt Lake City, Utah Deseret Digital Media 30.10.2005
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Bush, George (President)
Miers, Harriet E
Winston, David
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Summary:Even after the indictment on Friday of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, [Bush] has no immediate plans to bring in fresh faces or fire any top aides, especially if his senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, escapes being charged in the CIA leak case. The special counsel in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, said the investigation was continuing; Libby is expected to be arraigned here this week. Bush's new push to trim government spending also holds peril as well as potential for him. Since alienating many fiscal conservatives by embracing what appeared to them to be an open checkbook policy for paying for the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush has been moving steadily to the right on budget policy. The other big issues on Bush's agenda could also prove to be land mines. Bush's proposal to give temporary legal status to illegal immigrants who hold jobs has been blocked by conservatives in his own party, and the White House's effort at compromise by embracing a companion measure to beef up border security has done little to heal the ideological and regional rift among Republicans over the issue.
ISSN:0745-4724