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Karen Hughes, 43, who served as President-elect Bush's Director of
Communications during the campaign, will join the new Administration
as Counselor to the President.
Hughes will be responsible for providing strategic advice to the president
in a variety of areas including communications, policy and legislative
matters.
Ms. Hughes will oversee the Offices of Press Secretary, Communications
and Speechwriting. Hughes has worked for President-elect Bush since
his 1994 campaign for Texas Governor.
She served as Director of Communications for both his gubernatorial
campaigns in 1994 and 1998, and was Director of Communications in the
Governor's state office from 1995 until 1999, when she joined the presidential
campaign.
She is a former Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas
and a former reporter for KXAS-TV in Dallas/Ft. Worth.
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December
19, 2000
