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To: tejek who wrote (229383)	4/15/2005 3:14:52 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1586082

Memo Bush Is Seen as Unlikely to Seek DeLay's Ouster By ELISABETH BUMILLER Published: April 15, 2005 WASHINGTON, April 14 - President Bush and Representative Tom DeLay, the much-investigated but still powerful House majority leader, have never been pals. They made that clear in the fall of 1999, when Mr. Bush, the Republican front-runner for president, accused Mr. DeLay of balancing the federal budget on the backs of the poor and Mr. DeLay shot back that Mr. Bush "does not know how Congress works." In an interview that fall, Mr. DeLay also recalled that, when he first met Mr. Bush, the future president was "oil-field trash - that's an endearing term, by the way." In private conversations afterward, Mr. Bush was heard to express contempt for Mr. DeLay. But Republicans say that, for now, Mr. Bush's political need for his fellow Texas Republican transcends his personal distaste and the growing questions about Mr. DeLay's ethical conduct. For that reason, they say Mr. Bush and Karl Rove, the president's chief political strategist, are unlikely to try to jettison Mr. DeLay in the same way that they deposed Trent Lott as Senate Republican leader for racially charged comments Mr. Lott made in 2002. Continued............ nytimes.com