McCain Advisors: Don't Appear Too Close To Bush

Senator John McCain's campaign advisers will ask the White House to deploy President Bush for major Republican fund-raising, but they do not want the president to appear too often at his side, top aides to Mr. McCain said Sunday.

After a weekend of strategy meetings at Mr. McCain's Arizona ranch -- in a sense, the first Sedona summit of the Republican Party's new leadership -- the advisers said that much remains undecided about coordinating the campaign with the White House and the party apparatus until Mr. McCain wins enough delegates to be the official nominee.