"Bush's Brain" question

[DefenseLawyer]

I watched the Karl Rove documentary "Bush's Brain" the other night, and near the end they put on the screen without further comment that Rove had been fired from the Reagan/Bush campaign staff because of a leak to Robert Novak. I have done a brief search for the background on this and have found nothing. Anyone have the story about what they are referring to?

[Gabi Hayes]

1. here

Rove fired from Bush Sr's '92 campaign over leak to Novak. Karl Rove was fired from the 1992 re-election campaign of Bush Sr. for allegedly leaking a negative story about Bush loyalist/fundraiser Robert Mosbacher to Novak. Novak's piece described a meeting organized by then-Senator Phil Gramm at which Mosbacher was relieved of his duties as state campaign manager because "the president's re-election effort in Texas has been a bust." Rove was fired after Mosbacher fingered him as Novak's source.

http://www.bustbob.com/view.asp?ID=5

[DefenseLawyer]

2. That I found

but the documentary says the "Reagan/Bush Campaign" in 1980. Is there another incident? If not it seems like a pretty glaring mistake in a film that otherwise seemed very well done.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. dunno....I read the book, and remember the above Novak bit

but not the Reagan

you're right about a glaring mistake if that's the case