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White house speechwriter resigns« Thread Started on Jun 15,

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White house speechwriter resigns« Thread Started on Jun 15, 2006, 5:36pm »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Man who put words into Bush's mouth quits White Houseread source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/man-wh ... 5.htmlJune 16, 2006MICHAEL Gerson, the White House speechwriter and policy adviser who shaped nearly every big address of George Bush's presidency, has announced he is leaving the Administration to pursue "new career options".Mr Gerson was regarded as one of Mr Bush's closest aides and is credited with giving voice to the "compassionate conservatism" the President espouses as well as his more hawkish lines, like "axis of evil".Mr Gerson follows two other close Bush advisers who have left in recent weeks: Andrew Card, the former White House chief of staff, and Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary.But officials said Mr Gerson's departure was not part of the staff shake-up instigated by Mr Card's successor, Joshua Bolten, who has tried to invigorate and energise Mr Bush's staff with new faces.Mr Gerson, 42, who worked for Mr Bush for seven years, said he had been contemplating leaving the Administration for some time and told the President four months ago he was serious about leaving soon.Mr Gerson said he had chosen to leave now in part because the White House was having a run of good news and the time seemed right. "This was a case where many good things are coming together at the White House," he said. "And it, to some extent, makes it easier to leave."White House officials said there were no plans to name a successor to Mr Gerson. "There's no way to replace him; he is a once in a generation," said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff. "He helped take the President on his best day and represents what was in the President's spirit and soul."Mr Gerson was known to have infused Mr Bush's addresses with religious allusions and changed the words "axis of hatred" to the more biblical "axis of evil".Mr Gerson complained in an interview the line was often misrepresented to apply directly to Iran, North Korea and Iraq, which were but examples of rogue states. Asked to cite his favourite addresses, Mr Gerson pointed to those that immediately followed the attacks of September 11, 2001, specifically a line from an address given three days afterwards at the National Cathedral: "Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end. And the Lord of life holds all who die, and all who mourn."The New York Times
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