Editing Tony Snow (section)

=== White House Press Secretary ===
[[File:Perino - Bush - Snow 20070831-6 p083107cg-0044jpg-515h.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Snow pictured with President [[George W. Bush]] and Deputy Press Secretary [[Dana Perino]], August 2007]]{{Wikinews|Tony Snow, former White House Press Secretary and "Fox News Sunday" anchor, dies at age 53}}In April 2006, Snow was named [[White House Press Secretary]] in the [[George W. Bush]] administration, replacing [[Scott McClellan]]. His appointment to the position was formally announced on April 26, 2006. His selection was initially criticized because of some of his past comments about Bush.<ref name="thinkprogress">{{cite web
  | url = http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/25/snow-on-bush/
  | title = Tony Snow On President Bush: 'An Embarrassment,' 'Impotent,' 'Doesn't Seem To Mean What He Says'
  | date = April 25, 2006
| access-date = July 21, 2007
  | website = Think Progress
}}</ref> Bush acknowledged Snow's criticisms during the announcement of Snow's appointment, saying that Snow was "not afraid to express his own opinions".<ref name="Dodge&Murray">{{cite web
  | last = Dodge
  | first = Catherine
  |author2=Brendan Murray
   | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aPB0cCQxiemQ&refer=us
  | title = Bush Picks Fox News's Snow as White House Spokesman
  | publisher = Bloomberg.com
  | date = April 26, 2006
| access-date = July 21, 2007
}}</ref>

Snow began his new press secretary duties on May 8, 2006. He decided to leave the position of press secretary after new White House [[Chief of Staff]] [[Josh Bolten]] asked all staff members to either commit to staying through the end of Bush's second term, in January 2009, or to leave by Labor Day of 2007.<ref name="CNN">{{cite news
  | url = http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/12/obit.snow/index.html
  | date = June 12, 2008
| title = Former White House Spokesman Tony Snow Dies
  | publisher = CNN
  | access-date = July 12, 2008
}}</ref> On September 13, 2007, Snow gave his final press briefing, saying that he would miss the duties of his position, and that "I love these briefings".<ref>{{cite news
  | last = Baker
  | first = Peter
  | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202402_pf.html
  | title = Snow Relishes Final Joust With Reporters
  | newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]
  | date=  September 13, 2007
}}</ref>