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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!WASHINGTON (Sept. 8) -- Let the guessing game begin. The news that Chicago "Mayor for Life" Richard Daley would not run for a seventh term was a shocker. Instant speculation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a former congressman from Chicago, may step down to run for the job was not. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs hinted that a mayoral run could be in Emanuel's future. "Something like that doesn't come around a lot," Gibbs told reporters, suggesting there could be turnover at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. after the midterm election. Pete Souza, The White House Chief of Staff Rahm ...
Gen. Colin Powell returned to the State Department Monday for an emotional unveiling of his official Secretary of State portrait. Powell and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over the unveiling of the portrait, which will hang with those of the other former secretaries of State in the secretary's suite of offices. When Powell was introduced to speak in the Ben Franklin room on the top floor at the department, the crowd cheered and applauded loudly. Powell was surrounded his immediate family -- wife Alma Powell, daughter Linda Powell, son Michael Powell, daughter-in-law ...
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