New Faces Abound in Bush White House.(President George W. Bush's administration)

Nation's Cities Weekly, January, 2001

With the arrival of the Bush Administration, there will be all new faces at the White House and in most political positions within the federal agencies.

The President-elect is surrounding himself with an experienced senior White House staff made up of fiercely loyal friends and insiders from his six years as governor of Texas and others who served in his father's and the Reagan and Ford administrations.

Karl Rove, Bush's senior advisor Andrew Card, his chief of staff, and Karen Hughes, his senior counselor, will have equal power with specific assigned responsibilities. They are being referred to as the "White House troika of advisers." Karl Rove in a recent interview said that Card "will be the first among equals."

Card served as U.S....

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