... was actively voicing support for Nixon.
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Volume 3, Number 6
October, 2004
The Man behind the Cowboy: Karl Rove Revealed
Katie McCulloch '06
There are three things to know about Karl Rove. The first is that, as the mastermind of Bush’s campaign for re-election, he is one of the most powerful men in Washington. The second is that he is extremely good at what he does — the President calls him “the boy genius,” which is an apt title for this political wunderkind. The third and most important fact about Rove is that he operates with complete freedom from moral or ethical constraints, and under his watchful eye, dirty deeds have been done dirt cheap by and for the Republicans.
Though Rove has only recently become as well known as he is to the general public, he has been on the political scene for a long time. At the tender age of nine, reports Britain’s The Guardian, Rove, the child of non-political, disinterested parents, was actively voicing support for Nixon. The obsession with politics grew and despite having sidestepped the Vietnam draft by enrolling at the University of Utah (like George Bush and Dick Cheney, Rove never actually went to Vietnam), Bush’s advisor failed to obtain a degree. Instead, he transferred to the University of Maryland for a short period of time to be near Washington D.C., where he assumed his position as the president of the national College Republicans. He lasted less than a semester there before he dropped out to devote more time to running campaigns for Republicans at every level across the country.
Even before he officially entered politics, Rove had begun to put to use his powerful and conniving intellect. In 1970, he quietly entered the campaign headquarters of Alan Dixon, the Democrat running for the state treasurer’s office in Illinois. He stole 1,000 leaves of campaign stationary, printed the words “free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing” on them and had these “invitations” distributed throughout Chicago’s red light district. Needless to say, Dixon was surprised by the quantity and quality of the turnout at his next fancy, upper-class reception.
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Rove may be able to sidestep this new charge, as he has done so often in the past, for it has always been hard to implicate him in political scandal. The reason that Rove met George H.W. Bush in 1977 was that he was involved in a program designed to teach Young Republicans how to organize successful campaigns. It had come to the public’s attention that the focus of his lectures was, to put it simply, on how to bend or break laws and not get caught. The Republican National Committee called in Bush, Sr. to investigate , and he solved the problem by appointing Rove to his personal staff and firing his partner, who took the heat for the charges of misbehavior. Soon after, Rove met George Walker Bush, and he has been running campaigns for the family ever since.
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