WASHINGTON - Most of President George W. Bush's aides and top administration officials say they have no idea what they will do when the next president takes over in 28 days. Bush has now given some of them ways to occupy at least part of their time.
The White House yesterday announced Bush's choices of 24 people for spots on a total of 10 boards, councils, and committees, and many of those getting essentially parttime jobs are people who have been prominent in his two terms in office.
Some examples:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Nancy Brinker, the chief of protocol for Bush and a longtime friend, are among the president's choices for six-year terms on the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and Bush political affairs director Barry Jackson are being appointed members of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, for six-year terms. Anita McBride, chief of staff to Laura Bush, is being given a three-year term on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Bush is giving four-year terms on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations to Maria Cino, the president and CEO of the 2008 Republican National Convention and a former deputy transportation secretary under Bush, and to Israel Hernandez, a former top aide to Bush political guru Karl Rove and now an assistant commerce secretary.ASSOCIATED PRESS
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