BOSTON -- As Sarah Palin prepares to cross the political Rubicon into New Hampshire today, the former Alaska governor confirmed that she spoke to Fox News Channel President Roger Ailes during her visit to New York on Wednesday.

Palin said that she did not resign as a contributor to the cable news network, as speculation has increased that her job may be in jeopardy due to her increasingly brazen steps toward a presidential campaign and her eagerness to talk with reporters from other TV networks, in spite of a reported exclusivity clause in her Fox contract.

"I did get to speak to Roger Ailes, and we always have great conversations," Palin told RCP during a brief interaction with reporters before she headed out to explore some Revolutionary War history on Boston's Freedom Trail.

Palin visited with Ailes and other Fox News employees for over an hour on Wednesday in midtown Manhattan before her Boston-bound bus narrowly missed encountering the devastating tornadoes that hit western and central Massachusetts.

Fox News severed ties with former contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum when it became clear that the former House speaker and former Pennsylvania senator were actively exploring presidential runs, but the cable network has thus far stood by Palin, even as her travel schedule is about to become more overtly political with impending trips to the first three voting states on the presidential calendar: New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina.

"It was great," Palin said of her meeting at Fox News headquarters. "Any time we get to New York, I like to hop in and say 'Hi' to the folks there who work so extremely hard and get to see some of the hosts and some of the reporters."

For its part, Fox News released a statement through Bill Shine, its executive vice president of programming, which included the perhaps telling qualifier that "right now" there was no change in Palin's status with the network.

Palin's bus tour is scheduled to enter the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire later on Thursday.

She insisted to reporters that it was merely coincidental that she was traveling to the Granite State on the day when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is set to officially announce his entrance into the presidential race in the New Hampshire town of Stratham.

"It's coincidental that we are in the same territory at the same time, but more power to Mitt as he mounts his campaign, and best of luck to him," Palin said. "It's anticipated, of course, that he'd be running. It's been anticipated for quite some years that he'd give it another shot. So I don't know, maybe we'll run into him."