Rove to Resign as White House Political Advisor
By VOA News
13 August 2007
President Bush’s longtime political advisor, Karl Rove, said in an interview published Monday that he will resign at the end of the month.
Rove, who headed Mr. Bush’s political campaigns in 2000 and 2004, told The Wall Street Journal - in his words - “I just think it’s time.” He told Paul Gigot, the editor of the newspaper’s editorial page “There’s always something that can keep you here, and as much as I’d like to be here, I’ve got to do this for the sake of my family.”
Rove said he decided to leave after White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten told senior aids that if they stayed past the Labor Day holiday - September 3 - they would be obliged to remain through the end of the president’s term in January of 2009.
Rove has closely advised the president since Mr. Bush first announced he was running for governor of Texas in 1993. Rove served as chief strategist in Mr. Bush’s presidential campaign in 2000.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP.