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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush left on Friday for a holiday weekend with his longtime friend Don Evans amid speculation that the former commerce secretary was a top candidate to succeed Treasury Secretary John Snow. The Wall Street Journal online reported that Evans had emerged as the front-runner for the Treasury post. A Republican with close ties to the White House also told Reuters that he believed Evans was the leading candidate. A barrage of media stories in the past two days have suggested that Snow may leave within a month and people with close ties to the...

The Talk Shows Sunday, January 29nd, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; former Commerce Secretary Don Evans. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. FACE THE NATION (CBS): President Bush. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Dominique Dawes, Olympic gymnast. LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House counselor Dan Bartlett; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; former President Carter; former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Heard from a reliable source that Bush is going to shake up his Staff after New Year. As a minimum Andy Card is going to be replaced by Bush's best friend and former Commerce Secetary, Don Evans. More later.

Close Bush's Friend To Head Russian Oil Giant 19.12.2005 13:18 Donald Evans, the former commerce secretary and a close personal friend of U.S. President George W. Bush, is “seriously considering” becoming chairman of Rosneft Oil Company. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin offered Mr Evans this post last week. Speculation about Evans’ potential move has already drawn comparisons in Washington to the recent decision by Gerhard Schroeder, Germany’s former chancellor, to oversee the North European Gas Pipeline Company, a business controlled by the Russian oil giant Gazprom. The prospect of Evans joining Russian oil giant could generate intense criticism in Washington, however,...

President Bush met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the White House and held a joint press conference (worth reading). President Bush and Vice President Cheney met with panelists at a session entitled "The High Costs of Lawsuit Abuse" during the White House Conference on the Economy at the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington. The two-day White House-sponsored event is aimed at boosting President Bush's economic agenda. First Lady Laura Bush *and Barney* visited patients at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington. The Washington Post reported that Jenna Bush will teach at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush has chosen Carlos Gutierrez, chief executive officer of Kellogg, to be secretary of commerce.</p>

WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans resigned Tuesday, the first members of President Bush’s Cabinet to leave following his re-election.

Reporting that AG Ashcroft and Commerce Sec Don Evans have resigned.

President and Mrs. Bush made a trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center today to visit at the bedside of soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with their families. Afterwards he stopped to make a few comments to the press. The President also accepted the resignations of Commerce Secretary, Don Evans and Attorney General, John Ashcroft, and thanked them both for their service.Earlier in the day, First Lady Laura inaugurated the re-opening of a two block area of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of Lafayette Park, as a pedestrian walkway following a one year rennovation. She and the President will...

DES MOINES, IA - Today, the Honorable Don Evans announced the Iowa Small Business Leaders for Bush Coalition. The Iowa Small Business Leaders coalition will be an active part of recruiting others to support President Bush and Vice President Cheney. These leaders will spread the message of how President Bush's policies are working to strengthen small businesses and the economy. "Small businesses fuel 70% of job growth and are helping to keep Iowa's unemployment rate one of the lowest in the country," said Evans. "I am confident that the Iowa Small Business Coalition will recruit others and spread the word...

The Great (Trade) Wall of China By Don Evans President Bush believes that open markets and a level playing field are vital to job creation and economic growth. That is why the president rejects economic isolationism and why this administration is continuing to aggressively engage with China. Last week, along with Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, I led the president's Export Council to China to advance economic engagement, expand access for U.S. exports and address areas of trade concern. China is America's fastest-growing export market and our third-largest trading partner. Two-way trade exceeds $190 billion and over the last three...

(This byliner was originally published in the June 28 edition of the Wall Street Journal and is in the public domain. No republication restrictions.) (The author is the U.S. Commerce Secretary.) President Bush believes that open markets and a level playing field are vital to job creation and economic growth. That is why the president rejects economic isolationism and why this administration is continuing to aggressively engage with China. Last week, along with Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, I led the president's Export Council to China to advance economic engagement, expand access for U.S. exports and address areas of trade...

AUSTIN -- Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, a former Texas oilman and longtime friend of President Bush, is being encouraged to return home and run for governor, a Republican insider said Monday. The source, a longtime political player in Austin and Washington, said Evans hasn't dismissed the idea but doesn't plan to seriously consider it until after the November presidential election. Evans was out of the country Monday. But Ron Bonjean, a Commerce Department spokesman, said Evans isn't planning to run for governor. "Secretary Evans is 100 percent committed to serving President Bush as secretary of commerce," Bonjean said. But...

When Vice President Cheney and the 14 other statutory members of President Bush's Cabinet meet, 10 of them have one thing in common: They are millionaires. In fact, one-third of the Cabinet members, according to their financial disclosure statements, are in the $10 million-plus range, while another third are in the $1 million to $5 million range. The heaviest hitter is former Alcoa chief executive Paul H. O'Neill, now the treasury secretary. He is worth between $67 million and $253 million. Disclosure forms do not give specific price valuations for holdings, but instead require officials to state whether an asset...

Recall that Senate bloviator Teddy Kennedy got loads of media coverage for comparing President Bush to Richard Nixon. We guarantee this next little item will get far less press. Commerce Secretary Don Evans today compared John Kerry to the presidential disaster Jimmy Carter. Evans said Carter enacted a corporate tax credit nearly identical to the one Kerry proposed recently and contended it could harm industries and thus employment. "The last time America experimented with the policies like the ones Senator Kerry advocates were in the 1970s, and most of us remember that those weren't the best of times," Evans told...

National Federation of Independent Business WASHINGTON, DC – Thank you, Jack, for your generous introduction. I appreciate you and Tom Musser and Dan Danner for your leadership at the NFIB and for inviting me here today. The National Federation of Independent Business is a strong voice in Washington for the entrepreneurs and small business owners who bring innovation and growth to our economy. Thanks in large part to the 25 million small businesses in America, our economy is growing, workers are finding jobs, and productivity is at historically high levels. American companies and American workers are the best in...

Peacemaking Operation in Kosovo Failed — Russian Defense Minister Created: 06.04.2004 11:42 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:58 MSK, 14 hours 29 minutes ago MosNews The international peacekeeping operation in Kosovo has failed, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday. Speaking to journalists in Norfolk, Virginia, he said that a serious danger of destabilization in the entire region had been caused because of “attempts to appease extremists from amongst Kosovo Albanians whose aim is to form a society of one nation", Interfax news agency reported. “NATO ought to, at long last, understand that it is impossible to flirt with political extremists and...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union imposed sanctions on the United States for the first time on Monday as a dispute over tax breaks for U.S. firms turned into a trade battle that could cost U.S. exporters $300 million this year.The lower tax rates on exports by firms including Boeing and Microsoft have been judged an illegal subsidy by the World Trade Organization (WTO), which ruled the EU could respond by imposing up to $4 billion in sanctions a year on U.S. goods.But European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy decided to apply only gradual pressure by phasing in the measures, which...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans told workers at a Macomb Township factory Friday that the Bush administration is turning the economy around, but won't be satisfied until more jobs are created. "We had growth of about 4.3 percent at the end of 2003, and we'll see about the same in 2004. But we're still not seeing the job creation we'd like to see," said Evans, who toured Michigan Production Machining with U.S. Rep. Candice Miller. "There's nothing more important than a job. It's at the center of our society." Evans held a...

Sean had Commerce Secretary Don Evans on today, who did an excellent job of putting the deficit into terms and percentages that were understandable. Something about the deficit now is 5% of GDP, whereas it averaged "X" in the past 50 years I was in my car, and want to get the facts and numbers he talked about. Can anyone help, or point me to a source?