He fought valiantly:
Snow, who had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for a recurrence of the disease, left his White House job September 14, 2007, and joined CNN in April as a conservative commentator.
President Bush said Saturday that he and first lady Laura Bush were “deeply saddened” by Snow’s death.
“The Snow family has lost a beloved husband and father. And America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character,” the president said in a statement.
“It was a joy to watch Tony at the podium each day.”
In 2007 Tony wrote eloquently about the role faith played in his approach to life, and death, after being diagnosed with cancer:
It is hard to describe, but there are times when suddenly the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: Others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up—to speak of us!
This is love of a very special order. But so is the ability to sit back and appreciate the wonder of every created thing. The mere thought of death somehow makes every blessing vivid, every happiness more luminous and intense. We may not know how our contest with sickness will end, but we have felt the ineluctable touch of God.
What is man that Thou art mindful of him? We don’t know much, but we know this: No matter where we are, no matter what we do, no matter how bleak or frightening our prospects, each and every one of us, each and every day, lies in the same safe and impregnable place—in the hollow of God’s hand.
James Joyner has rounded up tributes from around the blogosphere.
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July 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/politicians/helms/story/1135443.html
Mr. L.F. Eason III deserves more tv air time then helms; thurman; and snow. Three less redneck right wing conservatives idiots on planet earth.
I don’t want to hug the tar baby -tony snow
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000399.htm