Tony Snow Cleared by Doctors for Press Secretary Job

By Greg Sheffield (Bio | Archive)
April 24, 2006 - 11:50 ET

Time reports that Fox News commentator Tony Snow has been given the go-ahead by doctors to consider the job of White House press secretary.
Snow, a father of three and a sax player, is the bona fide outsider that Republican allies have long prescribed for Bushworld and would bring irreverence to a place that hasn't seen a lot of fun lately. "White Houses are weird places," he told a 2004 panel on White House speechwriting. Snow had his colon removed after he was found to have cancer last year, but his doctors have approved the possibility of his taking the grueling post.