UPI Pictures of the Year 2007

U.S. President George W. Bush hugs and shakes hands with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove after Bush announced Rove will leave his post at the end of August on the South Lawn of the White House on August 13, 2007. Rove is widely credited with being the architect of Bush's Presidential election victories. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)