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To: Dorine Essey who wrote (3771)	4/23/2002 5:44:06 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

Maybe, it is the pressure. Sounds like she is torn between work and family. story.news.yahoo.com "Fifteen months into the Bush presidency, this is the period in which senior aides generally start considering departures from high-pressure White House and Cabinet posts. White House chief of staff Andrew Card has denied reports that he is considering leaving in the fall. Bush advisers say they expect Hughes will not be the last senior aide to leave this year. Bush said there was nothing other than Hughes' personal desire to return to Texas that prompted her resignation. "I don't intend to fill her role" as counselor to the president, he said, noting that fellow Texan Dan Bartlett is the White House communications director. Bartlett, 30, has become increasingly influential as a surrogate to Hughes, and aides said afterward his duties would increase with Hughes' departure. Senior White House advisers and Hughes associates outside the administration said Hughes' husband, a lawyer, was unhappy with Washington and regretted the loss of privacy and lack of time with his wife. Her son, too, was eager to return to his friends in Texas. "I saw Karen last week and was kind of struck at the time - although I didn't realize it as a sign then - that she was talking about how much Robert and Jerry missed Texas," said Mark McKinnon, who ran Bush's advertising operation during the campaign. Hughes said she plans to advise the White House from Texas on big-picture communication strategies, but will likely leave the federal payroll when she leaves Washington this summer. She made the decision now, Hughes said, because of a May 1 deadline to decide whether her son, Robert, 15, would remain in Washington schools. She has a stepdaughter, Leigh, 28, and a granddaughter, Lauren, 6, in Austin. Her son traveled with Hughes aboard the campaign plane in 2000, and has visited the Camp David presidential retreat outside Washington. As counselor to Bush, Hughes has been one of the president's most influential advisers in a White House where strategy centers on image and tone. Hughes is under Bush's orders to be in every White House meeting where major decisions are made. She reviews and often rewrites every statement he is due to make. She travels with him to make sure pictures of his road trips match the message. She manages more than 40 aides who staff the communications, press secretary, speechwriting and media affairs offices. And she spends more time with Bush than any other aide, even Rove - taking walks on the White House grounds and chatting over coffee. While Rove is the master tactician whose power derives from his political acumen, Hughes' influence comes from her access to the president's ear, and a sense for his moods and thinking. Once a week at the unlikely hour of 5:30 p.m., she leaves her corner West Wing office and goes home for what she and son Robert call their "midweek moment," named after a program at their old church in Texas." story.news.yahoo.com