CHRISTY HOUSE: I'm Christy House, from Los Angeles, California. And I'd like to know more about White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.</s>JOHN KING, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Christy, his full name is Lawrence Ari Fleischer, and his full title is assistant to the president and White House press secretary. He is relatively unique among senior Bush aides in that he does not have a long-time history either with the Bush family or with this president. In fact, during the 2000 presidential campaign, Ari Fleischer worked first, not for George W. Bush, but for Elizabeth Dole. He has almost a 20-year history in Republican politics, dating back to working for two congressmen from the state of New York. He also worked with Senator Pete Domenici in the Senate, and became much more known here in Washington because he had a key job working for Congressman Bill Archer, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee right after the Republicans took control of Congress in the 1994 election. On a more personal note, he is 41 years old, he is a native of Pound Ridge, New York, a longtime major fan of the New York Yankees. That lead to a relatively comic moment in the briefing room. The Arizona Diamondbacks, the visiting world champions of baseball, who defeated the Yankees and stopped by the briefing room in the middle of Ari Fleischer's daily briefing to give the press secretary a bit of a ribbing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED DIAMONDBACK: Maybe just a rumor, but I'd heard if we rub your head...</s>ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I suspect I'll have even less hair next year and the Yankees will be back.
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