Sen. Hagel retiring, not running for president
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Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a harsh critic of the Iraq war, plans to retire and will not seek the Republican presidential nomination next year, two Nebraska newspapers reported on Saturday.
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Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana will not seek the presidency in 2008, saying he believes the odds of a successful run were too great to overcome.
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Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, one of the most vocal Republican critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, announced his retirement yesterday -- bringing to three the number of GOP incumbents set to leave the Senate in 2008.
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Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator and fierce Iraq war critic, confounded rampant media speculation on Monday and put off a decision on whether to run for president in 2008.
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Chuck Hagel's antiwar stance could make him a serious Republican candidate for the White House in 2008. But it's causing him headaches back home.
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Comments The French president has announced his retirement Jacques Chirac has announced his retirement from politics after a career spanning more than 40 years.Comment
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Comedian and Democratic activist Al  Franken on Thursday ruled out a run for a Senate seat from  Minnesota next year but left open the possibility of a  potential candidacy in 2008.
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Agriculture. President Bush this morning nominated Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns to serve in that post. If the Senate confirms Johanns, he will replace Ann Veneman, who recently announced her resignation.
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Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said Monday that he would make a decision about his political future later this year Ã¢ÂÂ which still could include a bid for president in 2008.
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Rasmussen Reports - Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) leads Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel (R) by 16 percentage points in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. The Election 2008 poll, part of a series looking at all potential match-ups, shows Obama attracting 50% of the vote to Hagel&#39;s 34%.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will not run for president in 2008, Republican officials said Wednesday, as the field of White House contenders continued to shrink more than a year before the first convention delegates are chosen.
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The Senate seat being vacated in Nebraska by Chuck Hagel lures a former governor from his Cabinet post.
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Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel plans to retire at the end of this Congress, adding to the challenge already facing the GOP in its effort to regain control of the Senate in the 2008 elections.
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WASHINGTON - An election lawyer for President Bush who also has been advising a veterans group running TV ads against Democrat John Kerry resigned Wednesday from Bush's campaign.   "I cannot begin to express my sadness that my legal representations have become a distraction from the critical issues at hand in this election," Benjamin Ginsberg wrote in a resignation letter to Bush released by the campaign...
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U.S. Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) said yesterday that he will retire from Congress at the end of the year, closing a 14-year stint in the House during which he rose rapidly through the Republican leadership ranks and used his clout to champion local issues, including reviving a nearly bankrupt...
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Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a persistent Republican critic of the Iraq war, intends to announce on Monday he will not seek a third term, according to Republican officials.
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R. Nicholas Burns, the countryâs third-ranking diplomat who has been Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceâs right-hand man, is retiring for personal reasons.