Promoter of U.S. Image Quits for Wall St. Job

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the Ministry of Information loses one

ASHINGTON, April 29 - Margaret D. Tutwiler, the State Department veteran who was summoned from abroad to overhaul the public diplomacy effort, said Thursday that she was resigning to take a position at the New York Stock Exchange.

The move was a blow to the Bush administration's hopes to improve America's image and better articulate its policy goals as the country faces growing opposition to the war in Iraq and to its support of Israel's plan to redraw its boundaries.

It also highlighted the administration's difficulty in retaining managers of public diplomacy. Ms. Tutwiler's predecessor in the job was Charlotte Beers, a former New York advertising executive, who resigned in March of last year. At the White House, another official responsible for the administration's international message, Tucker Eskew, quit after about a year.

Ms. Tutwiler, a blunt-spoken Washington insider who served as spokeswoman for Secretary of State James A. Baker III and later went on to become President Bush's ambassador to Morocco, heads to the stock exchange after a management shake-up there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/politics/30tutw.html

[markses]

1. Once again proving the dictum

That no matter how good you are at bullshitting, you can't turn a turd that smells into a field of corn flowers.

The man was handicapped from the outset by his current material!

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2. Breaking news........

Wall Street tanks. Insider trading scandels erupt...... She's done a FINE job with Iraq, consider what she can do with the nation's economic engine!