By Jake Tapper ABC News has confirmed that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs will step down from the podium in early February, another significant departure in a time of staff transition for the Obama Administration.
Robert Gibbs is leaving the White House after serving as press secretary for two years. "It's true," the Obama adviser confirmed to CBS News.
Obama's spokesman is considering leaving his post to work on the president's 2012 campaign.
Robert Gibbs To Resign. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced today that he will resign, effective next month, to begin working on President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. A veteran of Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, ...
From John Garcia and Jake Tapper: As Speaker John Boehner heralded the arrival of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill, President Obama's Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was announcing his departure from the other end of Pennsylvania Ave, ...
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, 1/5/2011. James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. 12:51 P.M. EST. Q Where's the cake? Q It's a standing-room crowd here. MR. GIBBS: I noticed such a thing, and many cameras, and I see a number ...
So did he jump or was he pushed? Robert Gibbs, the face and mouthpiece of President Barack Obama throughout the campaign and the first two years of his administration, is leaving to become an "outside adviser".
President Obama said his outgoing press secretary had been earning "relatively modest pay." But he falls in the top 10 percent of Americans in income distribution.
Robert Gibbs to Step Down as White House Press Secretary.
Gibbs, whose saucy, churlish manner was resented on both sides of the aisle, will likely leave in February.