Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/washington/14rove.html

Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: July 14, 2007

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 Bush’s 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. Rove’s ultimate boss the previous year when he was executive director of the college group.

In the memorandum, he thanked her for “taking time out of your busy schedule” 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.

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

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.

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So that's how Bush* decided to be a "Unifier" and not a "Divider"..They always doand say the opposite of the truth.

Texas to ensure rethugs win districts! Assholes!

It appears to me that KKKarl meant the New Feudalism Advocates of the RepubliKLAN party.

Dig this quote from Karl about the document:

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.

“When you send something to a White House person,” he said, ‘’it tends to be collected and remain.”

right? :D

:evilgrin:

Rove and Nixon and Anne Armstrong and the Work Yet to Be Done

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/07/rove-and-nixon-.html