Ten Minutes From Normal

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aThe rule of thumb in any White House is that nobody is indispensable except the president, a said "The New York Times," abut Karen Hughes has come as close to that description as any recent presidential aide.a Karen Hughes has worked beside President George W. Bush since, as she says, athe motorcade was only one car and he was sometimes the one driving it.a As counselor to the president, she brought the working momas perspective to the White House, often asking of President Bushas policies, aWhat does this mean for the average person?a ? Yet the move from Texas to Washington was hard on her family, and in a controversial, headline-making decision that reverberated across America, she chose to place family first and quit the nationas capital to return to Austin. There, Hughes continues to advise the president, where the kitchen wall calendar marks the State of the Union message side by side with her sonas orthodontist appointments.? In this disarmingly down-to-earth, warm, often f