Rove: Dems Don't Like Him, GOP Resents Him...

The New York Times JIM RUTENBERG and ADAM NAGOURNEY November 18, 2006 05:38 PM

Karl Rove, the top White House political strategist, is coming off the worst election defeat of his career to face a daunting task: saving the president's agenda with a Congress not only controlled by Democrats, but also filled with Republican members resentful of the way he and the White House conducted the losing campaign.

White House officials say President Bush has every intention of keeping Mr. Rove on through the rest of his term. And Mr. Rove's associates say he intends to stay, with the goal of at least salvaging Mr. Bush's legacy and, in the process, his own.

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