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Karl Rove, White House deputy chief of staff, announced on Monday that he would be stepping down from the Bush administration by the end of August.   

“We’ve been friends for a long time, and we’re still going to be friends,” said George W. Bush.   Others, like Barack Obama, are not so sad to see him go.

“Karl Rove was an architect of a political strategy that has left the country more divided, the special interests more powerful, and the American people more shut out from their government than any time in memory,” he said.

“But to build a new kind of politics, it will take more than the departure of a man or even an Administration that constructed the old - it will take a movement of everyday Americans committed to changing Washington and reclaiming their government.”

Rove denied that ongoing investigations played any role in his departure.

“It’s not figured in my decision, no,” he said, adding that he’s “realistic enough to understand that the subpoenas are going to keep flying my way. I’m Moby Dick, and we’ve got three or four members of Congress who are trying to cast themselves in the part of Captain Ahab — so, they’re going to keep coming.”

Source: ABC News