Word: rove
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When a not-yet-world-famous political consultant named Karl Rove signed up back in 1999 to become the chief strategist for Texas Governor George W. Bush's presidential campaign, his client had a non-negotiable demand: Rove had to get rid of the lucrative direct-mail business he had run for 18 years. Bush, Rove once told me, had put it in the bluntest terms. "If I do this," Rove recalled Bush telling him, "I want you free and clear...
...confident everything will go smoothly,” Rove said before the speech. “We’re at Harvard, which is respectful of free speech...
...Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, president of the Harvard Republicans, introduced Rove, saying that Rove was instrumental in the ascent of the Republican Party in formerly Democratic Texas...
...Unsurprisingly, Rove—who is credited with masterminding Bush’s election and reelection—received a less-than-cordial welcome from the Harvard College Democrats, who issued a press release on Friday calling Rove “a historical reminder of the dirty and dishonest Bush campaigns...
...March 7 story, "Rove Denounces Obama for Empty Rhetoric," misstated the date of the creation of the White House Iraq Group. The group was set up in August 2002, not in 2004, as Karl Rove asserted in his speech...