"johac" <jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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"Turd Blossom" goes back a long way and like a bad smell turns up in
unexpected places. Note the films he wanted to show at fund raisers.

Once a traitor, always a traitor.

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July 14, 2007
Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

WASHINGTON, July 13 ‹ The year was 1973, and Karl Rove was looking for
help ‹ from the Nixon White House.

Tucked away inside 78,000 pages of documents from the Nixon
administration, released by the National Archives earlier this week, is
a little gem: a strategy memorandum from the man who would go on to
become the architect of President Bush¹s rise to political power.

Mr. Rove, then a 22-year-old aide on Capitol Hill, was planning a run to
become chairman of the College Republicans, a position he would
ultimately win twice. So he wrote to Anne Armstrong, then counselor to
Nixon. Mrs. Armstrong had been co-chairman of the Republican National
Committee, and therefore Mr. Rove¹s ultimate boss the previous year when
he was executive director of the college group.

In the memorandum, he thanked her for ³taking time out of your busy
schedule² to talk with him, and offered up his musings ‹ in the form of
a nine-page typed outline ‹ on how to strengthen the Republican Party by
motivating students.

³Appreciate anything you might be able to do for me,² he wrote, on
simple stationery with only his name, Karl C. Rove, at the top. ³I have
taken the liberty of enclosing the rough outline of my platform. Of
special interest is the ŒNew Federalism Advocates¹ mentioned in the
campaign section.²

The document, intended to develop an election program for the 1974
midterm campaigns, suggests that even then, Mr. Rove had a keen eye for
organization, and a propensity for slicing and dicing the electorate,
the kind of microtargeting that has since become a hallmark of his
campaigns.

In his memorandum, Mr. Rove offered suggestions, from having college
Republican clubs show ³nonpolitical films for fund-raising (e.g. John
Wayne flicks, ŒReefer Madness¹)² to developing a ³Student Guide to
Lobbying² with a ³forward by Bush/Nixon.² That, of course, would be the
elder George Bush, then chairman of the Republican National Committee,
through whom Mr. Rove first met the current occupant of the White House.

Mr. Rove¹s memorandum also proposes building a group of ³New Federalism
Advocates,² modeled on ³Friends of Nixon,² a Nixon campaign committee.
The group would have representatives from each state who, Mr. Rove
suggested, could meet in Washington for ³extensive briefings² with top
administration officials like John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. Haldeman.

³That didn¹t work out,² Mr. Rove said in a brief telephone interview
Friday. (Mr. Haldeman and Mr. Ehrlichman resigned in April 1973 amid the
Watergate scandal.)

As to the reference to ³Reefer Madness,² a torrid antimarijuana
propaganda film later revived as a countercultural favorite, the
56-year-old Mr. Rove pleaded forgetfulness. ³God, this is 1973!² he
said. ³You work the math. I don¹t remember it all.²

The letter is a walk back in time, and a reminder that in Washington,
where relationships often span the decades, the seeds of power are
planted early.

Mrs. Armstrong went on to become an ambassador to Britain, and then
returned to Texas, where she owns a ranch ‹ the very same ranch where
Vice President ***** Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter last year.
Mr. Rove said he went hunting there every year.

Mr. Rove said he long ago lost his only copy of the campaign platform.
But he said he was not surprised that the document had turned up in the
Nixon files.

³When you send something to a White House person,² he said, Œ¹it tends
to be collected and remain.²


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John #1782

"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."

- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.