Breaking: Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow Dies 1955-2008
The 53-year old former White House Secretary for the Bush administration lost his battle with abdominal cancer this morning. Mr. died at 2am this morning due to complications with chemotherapy. The conservative commentator left his position in the Bush administration to undergo chemotherapy in September 2007. Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy after he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2005. When leaving the White House in 2007, Snow announced that his cancer had returned and had spread to his liver. Snow lost his mother to colon cancer when he was a teenager. Mr. Snow is survived by his wife Jill Ellen Walker, whom he married in 1987, and their son Robbie and two daughters Kendell and Christie. The White House released a statement this morning saying that it was “deeply saddened” and that he was a “great friend.”