Hudson Institute spokeswoman Jennifer Butsch said Rove agreed to speak
at the grand opening of their new office last week in place of their
originally scheduled speaker, White House chief of staff Andy Card.

She said Card had plans to travel with President Bush that day, but
those travel plans were canceled and Card went ahead and gave the
speech instead of Rove.

RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman filled in for Rove at the Virginia
fund-raiser and Lynne Cheney took his place in Connecticut, Jones
said.

Jones said that Rove, who is Bush’s top political aide, currently has
no plans to appear at upcoming RNC events.

From The Associated Press, 10/18/05:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9742314

Rove cancels appearances before conservatives

Republican party officials say scheduling conflicts prevented outings

WASHINGTON -

Juggling appearances before a grand jury and conservative admirers
didn’t seem to make sense, so presidential adviser Karl Rove has
canceled three such outings as he waits to hear whether he or anyone
else will be indicted in the leak of a CIA officer’s identity.

Rove canceled plans to attend two Republican fund-raisers, the
national party confirmed Tuesday.

And he did not give his scheduled speech to the conservative Hudson
Institute think tank on Oct. 11.

Republican National Committee spokesman Brian Jones said scheduling
conflicts kept Rove from an RNC fund-raiser Monday night in Greenwich,
Conn., and a Virginia Republican Party fund-raiser Saturday.

Jones would not specify what the conflicts were or whether they had
anything to do with the federal grand jury that Rove has testified
before four times.

"He was unable to attend," Jones said.

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