Posted on 08/17/2007 1:32:28 PM PDT by nuconvert
Financial pressures force Snow departure
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Tony Snow said Friday he'll leave sometime before the end of the Bush presidency because of financial pressures.
He declined to say when he would depart, but that, "I'm going to stay as long as I can."
The 52-year-old Snow, the father of three children, earns $168,000 as an assistant to the president but made considerably more as a conservative pundit and syndicated talk-show host on Fox News Radio. He was named press secretary on April 26, 2006.
The White House has been shaken by the resignations of some of President Bush's closest aides. Political strategist Karl Rove announced Monday that he would leave at the end of the month. Longtime Bush adviser Dan Bartlett left earlier this year and Andrew Card left earlier as Bush's chief of staff.
Bush's term ends on Jan. 20, 2009.
"I will not be able to make it to the end of this administration, just financially," Snow said. "This job has been such a pleasant surprise in how much I like it. I love it."
Snow has been undergoing chemotherapy after doctors discovered a recurrence of colon cancer in March. He said the last of eight scheduled chemotherapy treatments would be on Friday. On Monday he will have a CAT scan to evaluate his progress.
for crying out loud, give the man a break! Cheez.
I doubt very much that that’s the case. People just like to speculate and most of the time they are SO WRONG.
>>I wonder who will be telling us that immigration reform isn’t amnesty and the SPP is only about jelly beans after he’s gone?<<
Well, at the risk of going off-topic, you present another aspect of the immigration situation. Since the President does not appear to have been straight with the base on immigration it makes it more complicated to discuss the various other conspiracy theories.
>>If you or anyone can find them I want to hear about it, so i can tell “uncle Fidel”<<
Only in America would folks buy into a “documentary” that presents health care in a poor communist dictatorship where you have to bring you own sheets as superior to that provided to NYC employees. Amazing, isn’t it?
Another welcomed departure announced today.
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