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	CNN.com - Bush aide Karen Hughes to leave White House - April 23, 2002
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- White House counselor Karen Hughes said Tuesday the needs of her family and the pull of Texas were behind the "difficult decision" to leave her power job in the West Wing -- which she called "the thrill of a lifetime" -- and return to her home state this summer.
		Hughes said the details of her new role have yet to be ironed out, but she said she expects to travel back to Washington "every couple of weeks." She said she will not be a government employee.
		But after a year and a half in Washington, Hughes described her family as "a little homesick." She said she and her husband decided they wanted their son, who is about to enter high school, "to feel rooted in Texas," where her daughter and granddaughter also live.
	www.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/04/23/hughes.resigning/index.html (815 words)

	USATODAY.com - Karen Hughes resigning from White House post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karen Hughes, whose title is counselor to the president but whose role is far broader, said Tuesday that she will resign late this summer to return to Texas.
		Hughes said she made the decision now because she faced a May 1 deadline to decide whether her son, Robert, 15, would stay in school in Washington.
		Hughes plans to continue to advise Bush on communication strategies and help polish his speeches, but she will give up her $140,000 annual salary.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2002/04/23/hughes.htm (1204 words)

	Karen Hughes Draws Crowds - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karen Hughes, former special counsel to President George W. Bush, spoke to an audience of about 450 people Saturday in Campbell Hall after a group of about two dozen people stood outside in protest of the Bush administration’s foreign policy.
		Hughes was on tour to promote her new book, Ten Minutes to Normal, which recounts her time working for Bush during his campaign for Texas governor as well as his 2000 bid for U.S. president, up to the time she resigned from the White House in 2002.
		Hughes said she worked as a television reporter before coming into politics, and during that time, she became interested in government.
	www.ucsbdailynexus.com /news/2004/7326.html (833 words)

	Bush-Cheney Campaign Strategist Karen Hughes Discusses the President's Renomination Acceptance Speech -- September 2, ...
		Karen Hughes, a strategist for the Bush-Cheney campaign and a longtime communications adviser to President Bush, discusses the president's acceptance speech, his plan for the future and attacks on Sen. John Kerry by speakers at the Republican convention.
		KAREN HUGHES: Well, again, I think that's very unfortunate, because, a, it's not true and I think the American people who have been watching this campaign know that the president has said, in fact the president just said earlier this week that Sen.
		KAREN HUGHES: And the president was making the contrast that the pamphleteering of those days, if you walked into a bookstore now, you see the modern day equivalent when you see all those books with all those titles criticizing the president.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/politics/july-dec04/hughes_09-02.html (2130 words)

	Announcement of Nominations of Karen P. Hughes as Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and Dina ...
		Karen's communication skills and her foreign policy experience are certainly well known, but I believe the most important attribute that she brings to this job is her strong belief that almost anything can be accomplished when different people from different cultures join together to change the world for the better.
		Karen knows the importance of education and she understands the power of ideas, and she believes strongly that we must mobilize young people around the globe to shatter the mistrust of past grievances and to foster a new spirit of tolerance and mutual respect.
		Karen has the spirit and the drive and the determination to take on this important mission during these important times and I'm honored that she is going to take on this new challenge.
	www.state.gov /secretary/rm/2005/43385.htm (2405 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Team Bush: The 'Iron Triangle'
		Karen Hughes was worried about her family, too.
		Hughes has a big laugh and an outgoing personality, but she is also the governor's staunchest defender.
		Hughes is the first to admit she has stepped into an enterprise that is likely to be overwhelming at times.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/hughes072399.htm (1298 words)

	CBS News \| Hughes Meets Critics In Turkey \| September 29, 2005 14:30:30
		Karen Hughes, the Bush administration's new head of public diplomacy, continued her swing through the Middle East, spent the day in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, meeting with students at a college for women and then with a group of Saudi journalists.
		Then Hughes told Saudi journalists the United States was "concerned" about literature found in mosques in the America, which she said was "not tolerant." Hughes expressed the hope that Saudi officials would work on this issue with the Bush administration.
		Hughes said the Bush administration has made a "fundamental change in American policy toward the middle east," which for sixty years, she said, "turned a blind eye to democracy and freedom in favor of stability." Hughes said it was good for the people of a country to be involved in choosing their own leaders.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/03/12/politics/main679759.shtml (1255 words)

	Election Diaries: Hughes on First
		Party rivals wondered aloud if Hughes was trying to play up her working-mom image at a time when GOP Washingtonians were itching to install someone more seasoned and less Texan in the role of Bush spokesperson.
		Karen's next tasks are to set the governor's phone calls in motion, and her lieutenant Mindy Tucker produces a list that gets faxed to the governor, along with a draft of an acceptance speech written by in-house wordsmith Mike Gerson, then tweaked by Hughes.
		Hughes gathers Robert and collects kisses before she heads down the elevator to the garage where her Mazda is parked.
	newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/politics/national/features/4070/index1.html (1428 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bush to bring Karen Hughes back to administration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the announcement that Bush has selected Karen Hughes to be undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs will be made early next week, possibly as early as Monday.
		Hughes, who for years has had a major voice in crafting Bush's domestic message, is a former counselor to the president who left the White House in 2002 to move her family back to Texas.
		As undersecretary, Hughes' main responsibility will be to repair the image of the United States which was badly tarnished abroad by anger over the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq and overthrow its government.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-03-12-hughes_x.htm (403 words)

	Transcript for April 4 - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
		HUGHES: Well, Tim, I'm not sure that I characterize it that way, because what I've heard the president say is he wants all the facts to come out, he wants the commission to be able to report fully to the American people.
		HUGHES: I think that, obviously we need to--what we need to do is learn everything that we can, and that's why the work of the commission is so important and why the president has directed Dr. Rice to go before the commission this week and testify in public.
		HUGHES: I promised the president when I left the White House that I would travel with him for the last few months of his re-election campaign as I always have during his campaigns, because I think it's important for my family and for all the families of America, that he be re-elected.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4663767 (8236 words)

	Karen Hughes Left the White House for her Family -- Seriously
		After all, Karen Hughes is the most powerful woman ever to serve in the White House (with the exception of some First Ladies).
		Hughes was one of three top aides to George W. Bush in the Texas governor's mansion.
		Karen Hughes has broken through the glass ceiling and found that the top wasn't all it's cracked up to be.
	www.cato.org /dailys/04-30-02.html (815 words)

	Karen P. Hughes - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karen P. Hughes was confirmed July 26, 2005, by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
		Hughes has barnstormed the talk shows in her purpose-built pantsuit to restore the memory of Bullhorn Bush in the rubble of the World Trade Center, after the onslaught of Clarke and the 9/11 commission.
		At the same time that Hughes is doing her girly interview with Barbara Walters about why she went home to Texas to have more quality time with her kid, the campaign is systematically carpet-bombing John Kerry with a devastatingly effective comic ad about gasoline prices.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Karen_Hughes (2188 words)

	Hughes, Karen P.
		Ambassador Karen Hughes was nominated by President George W. Bush on June 29, 2005 to serve as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
		Ambassador Hughes returned to Texas in 2002 but continued to serve as an informal advisor to the President and was a communications consultant for his 2004 re-election campaign.
		Hughes is a Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Southern Methodist University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Journalism.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/biog/53692.htm (367 words)

	Karen Hughes To Work on The World's View of U.S. (washingtonpost.com)
		Former White House counselor Karen P. Hughes will take over the Bush administration's troubled public diplomacy effort intended to burnish the U.S. image abroad, particularly in the Muslim world, where anti-Americanism has fueled extremist groups and terrorism, a senior administration official said yesterday.
		Hughes will take over an operation that has been criticized as lackluster by many analysts and, privately, even by some administration officials, despite its mission of waging a war of ideas against Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist organizations.
		Hughes, who left her White House job in the summer of 2002 to return to Texas with her family, did not return telephone or e-mail messages.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A25347-2005Mar10.html (315 words)

	Feminists' Attacks on Hughes Shortchanges Women and Their Families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In late April Counselor to the President Karen Hughes announced that she and her family are moving back to Texas so they can spend more time together.
		Hughes has always maintained that her family was her priority.
		Rather than condemn Karen Hughes’ decision as a blow to equality, feminists should rejoice that a prominent, successful woman is saying her most important job – motherhood – is taking center stage in her life.
	www.cblpolicyinstitute.org /hughes.htm (763 words)

	Ron Suskind: Articles
		In the middle ground, at nearly six feet tall in flats, stands Karen Hughes, who says that of course she wasn't selected for her job because she is a woman, but, yes, it makes one hell of a difference that she is one.
		But Karen is a member of another family—the First Family—and that means it's not just her family she has to think about but also her beloved Bushes and, by association, every family represented by the president—which is everyone.
		On October 28, when Karen Hughes was deep in combat with absolute evil, she managed to travel to Westlake Hills for three days of intimate, heart-baring, meet-and-greet events—speeches, luncheons, coffee klatches—about the role of faith in her life.
	www.ronsuskind.com /newsite/articles/archives/000005.html (6879 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| 'Homesick' aide quits White House
		Mrs Hughes, 45, who served as counsellor to the president and is widely thought to be one of his most trusted aides, said that it had been a tough decision but she had wanted to spend more time with her family.
		Mrs Hughes is reported to have told friends privately she was concerned that her family, especially her son, had never settled in Washington and that she missed her stepdaughter and granddaughter, Reuters news agency reported.
		Ms Hughes stressed that she intends to continue advising the president on communications strategy both from her home in Texas and in visits to Washington.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1947000/1947113.stm (368 words)

	BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Karen Hughes
		Karen Hughes has returned from semi-retirement in Texas to become Bush's official State Department envoy to sell "Brand Bush" to the Muslim world.
		Additionally, Karen Hughes will have to explain to the rest of the world why Saddam Hussein was a member of the "axis of evil" for torturing Iraqis, but Bush is a good guy for doing the same thing.
		Karen Hughes Was Also Chosen BuzzFlash.com GOP Hypocrite of the Week on May 1, 2004.
	www.buzzflash.com /editorial/05/03/edi05037.html (483 words)

	Karen Hughes: Bush's Spinner to the World
		Instead, Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes told AP that the advertisement had been "accurate," considering the time Bush had spent on alert and in training.
		Hughes, according to UPI, maintained that Bush in the 1998 interview with Slater was "hinting around that something had happened.
		Hughes' "explanation" of Bush's exchange with Slater is one of the great examples of political spin.
	www.thenation.com /capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2258 (1658 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Ten Minutes from Normal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hughes begins by detailing her upbringing as an army brat, her career as a TV reporter in Texas and her entry into politics as a press officer for the 1984 Reagan presidential campaign.
		Karen Hughes tells us of her plight with becoming significant advisor to the President and the sacrifices of her son and husband and normal life to aid in the countries business.
		Hughes was born an army brat, and recounts her early years with fondness, giving credit to her parents' mixture of affection and discipline for the value system that drives her own ambition.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670033057?v=glance (3036 words)

	Flattery Operated - Watch as a New York Times reporter butters up Karen Hughes. By Jack Shafer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hughes is not an easy woman for a journalist to like, let alone love, and she knows it.
		Hughes said she would be at the president's side next month for his break at his ranch, and she was already planning his speech to mark the year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
		She documents how Hughes advises the president over the phone, edits his speeches, and visits the White House "often for three to four days at a time." In January 2003, Bumiller again writes about Hughes, "one of Mr.
	slate.msn.com /id/2098297 (995 words)

	GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Karen Hughes -- A BuzzFlash Editorial
		Karen Hughes comes from a military family and she respects hierarchy and authority.
		Ostensibly, she was pedaling some ridiculously self-indulgent memoir, but she had time to imply that the million women and men who marched for reproductive rights were morally equivalent to terrorists and to deride John Kerry's decorated career in combat and anti-Vietnam war protests.
		Karen Hughes, drill sergeant of the Bush Cartel spin squad, we salute you as the 29th BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.
	www.buzzflash.com /editorial/04/05/edi04033.html (437 words)

	Bush names close aide Karen Hughes to boost US reputation abroad
		Hughes, 48, is a longtime Bush associate who played a key role in his 2000 election campaign.
		"Karen Hughes has been one of my most trusted and closest advisers, and she has the experience, expertise and judgment to lead this critical effort," said Bush in a statement Monday.
		With a robust physical presence and steel-blue eyes, Hughes was a key adjutant during Bush's first term, before quitting the White House in April 2002 to spend more time with her family.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=38714 (738 words)

	The Next Hurrah: Karen Hughes: Does Pro-Choice Still=Pro-Terrorist?
		However, Karen Hughes has zero foreign policy background; she was an on-screen news reader for a local television station before going to work on Bush's gubernatorial campaign.
		But Hughes' career has never involved understanding others; her specialty is message discipline, the means by which George W. Bush repeats the same nostrums ad nasuseum--uniter not a divider, compassionate conservatism, yada yada yada...
		Karen Hughes is unsuited to coordinate public diplomacy toward the Middle East because she doesn't have the faintest understanding of what Americans believe and value, of what Arabs think about the United States, and of who poses the real terrorist threat to the United States of America--and who doesn't.
	thenexthurrah.typepad.com /the_next_hurrah/2005/03/karen_hughes_an.html (814 words)

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