Entries for April 25, 2007

Tony Snow with President Bush

AP

From our good news file: Ailing White House spokesman Tony Snow has told his boss that he plans to return to work on April 30.

"That's what he's been telling people" inside the West Wing, says an official. Snow's been away fighting cancer and surprised Washington when he attended last Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Snow has said he feels pretty good, considering the treatment, though it's unclear how often he will handle questions in the White House briefing room.

John Negroponte

www.state.gov

Oh, boy, it's time again for a new spell-check program on the White House computers. This time, the media affairs office has misspelled the name of one of President Bush's longtime top aides, John Negroponte. You know him: He's the deputy secretary of state and was Bush's first intelligence czar, ambassador to Iraq, and the country's representative at the United Nations. Well, in an internal media note yesterday, the White House bragged that Negroponte was to be on public TV's The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer. Here's how the item went out:

Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Subject: ON TV: State

Deputy Secretary of State Negropante discusses foreign policy on PBS The Newshour with Jim Lehrer (6pm MPT and 7pm WETA)."

We told you that the president's trio tasked to look into the Virginia Tech murders was planning to announce a listening tour, and today it did. The tour begins tomorrow and will touch down in states like New Mexico, Minnesota, Colorado, Utah, Iowa, Tennessee, Texas, and California. Here's the release the Department of Health and Human Services planned to put out today.

—Wayne Stayskal, Tampa Tribune

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