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Barbara Walters to Interview Bush Advisor Karen Hughes
Copyright 2004 by Gretchen Passantino
Friday, March 26 2004 @ 12:27 PM ESTFormer White House counselor to the president and director of communications Karen Hughes was, according to ABC's Barbara Walters, "one of the most powerful women in the entire history of White House staffs." Nevertheless, when she discovered that her Texas family was not acclimating to Washington life, she resigned her position and moved her family back to Texas. Still a consultant to the White House, she most recently "helped shape the administration's response this week to former counterterrorism official Richard Clarke."
Karen Hughes is the subject of a Barbara Walter's interview set to air this coming Monday night, March 29, on ABC's 20/20 (10:00 PM EST and PST, 9:00 CST).
Walters says the interview answers a question many women -- and men -- face: choosing between professional achievement and personal obligation. Walters comments, "Karen Hughes puts a face on a problem that may even have touched your family."
Although the Barbara Walters announcement of the coming interview does not say so, Karen Hughes is also an outspoken Evangelical Christian. Elsewhere Hughes has stated that having Christian faith in common with the President enabled her to better work with the President in ensuring that his deeply held moral convictions were evident in his public statements. Since leaving the all-consuming White House post, Hughes has spent a significant amount of time in public speaking, including addresses before large Christian audiences, such as the Willow Creek Association Leadership Summit conference.
Walters shared a short portion of her upcoming interview in her release, quoting Hughes describing how she told President Bush that she was leaving Washington:
"I agonized for a week about how to say it. . . . I remember one afternoon saying, 'I need to talk to you about something.' And I looked at him and of course I remember . . . taking a big gulp and . . . and saying, 'Mr. President, I . . . I love you but I need to move my family home to Texas.' And. . . . It was a long pause and then he said, 'Will you still be involved?' And I thought it was the most wonderful thing I could have heard."
Interestingly, Barbara Walters is herself the subject of strong criticism from former media power broker Myrna Blyth in her new book, Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of America. Blyth argues that journalists like Walters tell "you endlessly about the stress in your life, about the way you should look, about what should make you feel sorry for yourself, or very, very, fearful about your health and the environment" (8).
Walters promises that Hughes will talk about "family values and political aspirations" and notes that Hughes also has a new book out, Ten Minutes from Normal.
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