Bush Picks Deputy Chief of Staff, Head of Public Liaison Office

President Bush on Friday named a new deputy chief of staff and gave a senior White House job to the wife of a Republican political operative who has criticized Bush for breaking his “no new taxes” promise.

W. Henson Moore, a former Republican congressman from Louisiana, was appointed as Bush’s No. 2 staff aide, directly under Chief of Staff Samuel K. Skinner. Since 1989, Moore has been the Energy Department’s deputy secretary. He succeeds Andrew H. Card Jr., nominated by Bush to be transportation secretary.

Sherrie Rollins, director of news information for ABC News in New York, will join Bush’s staff as head of an expanded Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs. She will serve as a liaison with state and local officials, as well as with business groups, labor, religious groups and others.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported in its editions Saturday that Republican National Committee Chairman and former Agriculture Secretary Clayton K. Yeutter has been offered a job as Bush’s domestic policy director. Yeutter has not decided yet whether to take the job, the newspaper said.

Sherrie Rollins, 33, is the wife of Ed Rollins, who was political director in the Ronald Reagan White House and, later, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee.