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| | Online NewsHour: President Bush Announced Tony Snow as New Press Secretary --April 26, 2006 |
 | | And that's important, because you want the press secretary to be with the president and be able to talk to reporters about what it was the president said, not what somebody else said, but what the press secretary observed. |
 | | He also has to manage the relationship between the president and the White House staff and reporters, and that means things, such as recently McClellan has been involved in bringing reporters in on an off-the-record basis with the president so that they'll get a better feel for who he is in a less formal circumstance. |
 | | And you don't want a press secretary to be involved in policy, because if a press secretary is arguing policy, then, when he comes out and talks to reporters, reporters won't know whether it's the president's policies that he's talking about, the president's thinking, or his own thinking. |
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