Conservative pundit Tony Snow will be named White House press secretary, Republican officials said Tuesday night, in the latest move in President Bush’s effort to remake his troubled White House.
Snow is expected to be named on Wednesday.
He will replace Scott McClellan, who is stepping down in a White House personnel shuffle intended to re-energize Bush’s presidency, bring in new faces and lift the president’s record-low approval ratings. McClellan had served as Bush’s chief spokesman - the most prominent public figure in the White House after Bush - for nearly three years.
Snow, a Fox News commentator and speech-writer in the White House under Bush’s father, has written and spoken frequently about the current president - not always in a complimentary way. While Snow is an experienced Washington hand, he is an outsider when it comes to Bush’s tight core of advisers.
The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, circulated unflattering observations by Snow about Bush.
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