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 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has come under increasing pressure from within his own party to shake up his White House staff in an effort to revitalize his troubled presidency. His naming of budget director Josh Bolten to replace Andrew Card as chief of staff was greeted by Republicans as a step in that direction.
But Bolten's appointment hardly represented the infusion of new blood that some had urged. Bolten is a longtime adviser to the president and, like Card, has preferred to operate in a low key, behind-the-scenes fashion.
Some Republicans argued for Bush to bring in prominent outsider, perhaps a GOP elder statesman, to take charge of the White House operation, much as President Reagan did in 1987 when he named former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee to be his chief of staff after the Iran-Contra arms and money affair.
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