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American political consultant and policy counselor

Karl Rove
White Firm Deputy Main of Staff for Policy
In office February 8, 2005 – August 31, 2007
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Harriet Miers
Succeeded by	Joel Kaplan
Senior Counselor to the President
In office January 20, 2001 – August 31, 2007
President	George Westward. Bush
Preceded past	Sid Blumenthal Joel Johnson Doug Sosnik
Succeeded by	Barry Jackson
Chair of the College Republicans
In office 1973–1977
Preceded past	Joe Allay
Succeeded by	John Brady
Personal details
Born	Karl Christian Rove (1950-12-25) December 25, 1950 (age 71) Denver, Colorado, U.Due south.
Party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Valerie Mather Wainwright ​ ​ (k. ; div. 1980)​ Darby Tara Hickson ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​ Karen Johnson ​ (m. )​
Children	1
Website	Official website

Karl Christian Rove (born Dec 25, 1950) is an American Republican political consultant, policy advisor and lobbyist. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Master of Staff during the George W. Bush assistants until his resignation on August 31, 2007. He has also headed the Office of Political Diplomacy, the Role of Public Liaison, and the White House Part of Strategic Initiatives.

Prior to his White House appointments, he is credited with the 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial victories of George W. Bush, too every bit Bush's 2000 and 2004 successful presidential campaigns. In his 2004 victory speech Bush-league referred to Rove every bit "the Builder". Rove has also been credited for the successful campaigns of John Ashcroft (1994 U.S. Senate election), Bill Clements (1986 Texas gubernatorial election), Senator John Cornyn (2002 U.S. Senate election), Governor Rick Perry (1990 Texas Agriculture Commission election), and Phil Gramm (1982 U.S. House and 1984 U.S. Senate elections). Since leaving the White House, Rove has worked as a political annotator and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek and The Wall Street Periodical.

Early years [edit]

Family unit, upbringing, and early education [edit]

Karl Rove was born on Christmas Day in Denver, Colorado, the 2d of five children, and was raised in Sparks, Nevada. His parents separated when he was nineteen years old^[1] and the man whom Rove knew as his male parent was a geologist.^[2]

In 1965, his family moved to Table salt Lake City, where Rove entered high school, condign a skilled debater.^[3] Encouraged by a instructor to run for class senate, Rove won the ballot. Every bit role of his campaign strategy he rode in the back of a convertible inside the school gymnasium sitting between two bonny girls earlier his election speech.^[4] While at Olympus High School,^[v] he was elected student council president his junior and senior years. Rove was as well a Teenage Republican and served as Chairman of the Utah Federation of Teenage Republicans. During this time, his begetter got a job in Los Angeles and visited the family during holidays.^[6]

Rove'south mother suffered from depression and had contemplated suicide more than once in her life.^[6] Rove stated that although he loved his mother, she was seriously flawed, undependable and, at times, unstable.^[6] In Dec 1969, after a heated fight with his wife, the homo Rove had known as his male parent left the family unit and divorced Rove'south mother soon afterwards.^{[vii] [8]} Rove's female parent moved back to Nevada, and his siblings briefly lived with relatives after the divorce.^[vi] Rove learned from his aunt and uncle that the man who had raised him was not his biological male parent; both he and his older brother Eric were the children of another man. Rove has expressed neat love and adoration for his adoptive father and for "how selfless" his love had been.^[nine] Rove's father and mother expressed deep regret over the failure of the marriage and briefly tried dating each other afterward the divorce, but they refused to explain the breakup of the marriage, merely stating that they still "loved each other dearly."^[6] Rove was unable to convince his parents to get dorsum together, every bit they were determined about the divorce, a situation which Rove still does not empathize.^[6] Rove's relationship with his adoptive father was briefly strained for a few months post-obit the divorce, but they maintained a very close relationship for the rest of his life.^[10]

Rove had but exceptional contact with his mother in the 1970s. She frequently withheld child support checks and spent them for herself. She and her second hubby lost most of their money due to poor financial decisions on her part and his gambling and overspending.^[11] On September 11, 1981, Rove'due south mother died by suicide in Reno, Nevada, soon after she decided to divorce her third and last husband, to whom she had been unhappily married for only 3 months.^{[ten] [12]}

Entry into politics [edit]

Rove began his involvement in American politics in 1968. In a 2002 Deseret News interview, Rove explained, "I was the Olympus High chairman for (former U.South. Sen.) Wallace F. Bennett's re-ballot campaign, where he was opposed by the dynamic, young, aggressive political science professor at the Academy of Utah, J.D. Williams."^[13] Bennett was reelected to a third half-dozen-year term in November 1968. Through Rove's campaign involvement, Bennett'southward son, Robert "Bob" Foster Bennett—a future United States Senator from Utah—would get a friend. Williams would after become a mentor to Rove.

Higher and the Dixon entrada sabotage incident [edit]

In the fall of 1969, Rove entered the Academy of Utah, on a $ane,000 scholarship,^[14] as a political scientific discipline major and joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Through the Academy's Hinckley Found of Politics, he got an internship with the Utah Republican Party. That position, and contacts from the 1968 Bennett entrada, helped him secure a job in 1970 on Ralph Tyler Smith'due south unsuccessful re-election campaign for Senate from Illinois against Democrat Adlai East. Stevenson III.

In the fall of 1970, Rove used a simulated identity to enter the campaign part of Democrat Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Treasurer of Illinois. He stole chiliad sheets of paper with entrada letterhead, printed fake campaign rally fliers promising "gratis beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing", and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon's rally. (Dixon eventually won the election.) Rove's role would not become publicly known until Baronial 1973 when Rove told the Dallas Morning News. In 1999 he said, "It was a youthful prank at the age of 19 and I regret information technology."^[fifteen] In his memoir, Rove wrote that when he was afterwards nominated to the Lath for International Dissemination past President George H.West. Bush-league, Senator Dixon did non kill his nomination. In Rove'southward account, "Dixon displayed more grace than I had shown and kindly excused this youthful prank."^[xvi]

Higher Republicans, Watergate, and the Bushes [edit]

In June 1971, after the terminate of the semester, Rove dropped out of the University of Utah to take a paid position as the Executive Director of the College Republican National Committee.^[17] Joe Abate, who was National Chairman of the Higher Republicans at the time, became his mentor.^[ix] Rove then enrolled at the Academy of Maryland in College Park in the Fall of 1971, but withdrew from classes during the offset half of the semester.^[18] In July 1999 he told The Washington Mail that he did non have a degree considering "I lack at this point i math class, which I can take by test, and my strange language requirement."^[15]

Rove traveled extensively, participating as an instructor at weekend seminars for campus conservatives beyond the country. He was an active participant in Richard Nixon's 1972 Presidential campaign. A CBS report on the organisation of the Nixon entrada from June 1972 includes an interview with a young Rove working for the College Republican National Committee.^[xix]

Rove held the position of executive director of the College Republicans until early on 1973. He left the job to spend v months, without pay, campaigning full-fourth dimension for the position of National Chairman during the time he attended George Mason University.^[ix] Lee Atwater, the group'south Southern regional coordinator, who was two months younger than Rove, assisted with Rove'due south campaign. His campaign was managed by Daniel Mintz, of the Maryland College Republicans.^[20] Karl spent the jump of 1973 crisscrossing the country in a Ford Pinto, lining up the support of Republican country chairs.

The College Republicans summer 1973 convention at the Lake of the Ozarks resort in Missouri was quite contentious. Rove's opponent was Robert Edgeworth of Michigan. The other major candidate, Terry Dolan of California, dropped out, supporting Edgeworth. A number of states had sent two competing delegates, because Rove and his supporters had fabricated credential challenges at country and regional conventions. For case, afterwards the Midwest regional convention, Rove forces had produced a version of the Midwestern College Republicans constitution which differed significantly from the constitution that the Edgeworth forces were using, in social club to justify the unseating of the Edgeworth delegates on procedural grounds,^[nine] including delegations, such as Ohio and Missouri, which had been certified earlier by Rove himself. In the terminate, there were two votes, conducted by ii convention chairs, and 2 winners—Rove and Edgeworth, each of whom delivered an acceptance speech. After the convention, both Edgeworth and Rove appealed to Republican National Committee Chairman George H. W. Bush, each contending that he was the new Higher Republican chairman.

While resolution was pending, Dolan went (anonymously) to the Washington Mail service with recordings of several grooming seminars for young Republicans where a co-presenter of Rove's, Bernie Robinson, cautioned against doing the aforementioned matter he had washed: rooting through opponents' garbage cans. The tape with this story on it, as well as Rove's admonition non to copy similar tricks equally Rove's confronting Dixon, was secretly recorded and edited by Rich Evans, who had hoped to receive an appointment from Rove's competitor in the CRNC chairmanship race.^[21] On Baronial 10, 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, the Mail broke the story in an article titled "GOP Party Probes Official as Instructor of Tricks".^[22]

In response, then RNC Chairman George H.Due west. Bush, had an FBI agent question Rove. As role of the investigation, Atwater signed an affidavit, dated Baronial 13, 1973, stating that he had heard a "xx infinitesimal chestnut similar to the i described in the Washington Mail" in July 1972, but that "it was a funny story during a coffee intermission".^[23] Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean, has been quoted equally saying "based on my review of the files, it appears the Watergate prosecutors were interested in Rove's activities in 1972, merely considering they had bigger fish to fry they did not aggressively investigate him."^[24]

On September six, 1973, iii weeks after announcing his intent to investigate the allegations against Rove, George H.W. Bush chose him to be chairman of the College Republicans. Bush-league then wrote Edgeworth a letter saying that he had ended that Rove had adequately won the vote at the convention. Edgeworth wrote back, request almost the basis of that conclusion. Not long subsequently that, Edgeworth stated "Bush sent me dorsum the angriest letter I have e'er received in my life. I had leaked to the Washington Post, and now I was out of the Party forever."

Every bit National Chairman, Rove introduced Bush to Atwater, who had taken Rove's job as the College Republican'southward executive director, and who would become Bush's main entrada strategist in futurity years. Bush hired Rove as a Special Banana in the Republican National Committee, a job Rove left in 1974 to go Executive Banana to the co-chair of the RNC, Richard D. Obenshain.

As Special Assistant, Rove performed small personal tasks for Bush. In November 1973, he asked Rove to take a set of car keys to his son George W. Bush-league, who was visiting home during a break from Harvard Concern School. It was the first time the two met. "Huge amounts of charisma, swagger, cowboy boots, flight jacket, wonderful grin, just charisma – you know, wow", Rove recalled years later.^[22]

Virginia [edit]

In 1976, Rove left D.C. to piece of work in Virginian politics. Initially, Rove served equally the Finance Director for the Republican Party of Virginia. Rove describes this as the role in which he discovered his love for directly post campaigns.^[ten]

The Texas years and notable political campaigns [edit]

1977–1991 [edit]

Rove's initial job in Texas was in 1977 as a legislative aide for Fred Agnich, a Texas Republican state representative from Dallas.^[25] Later that same year, Rove got a job as executive manager of the Fund for Limited Government, a political action committee (PAC) in Houston headed by James A. Baker, III, a Houston lawyer (later President George H. Westward. Bush-league'due south Secretary of Country). The PAC eventually became the genesis of the Bush-league-for-President campaign of 1979–1980.

His work for Pecker Clements during the Texas gubernatorial ballot of 1978 helped Clements become the first Republican Governor of Texas in over 100 years. Clements was elected to a 4-year term, succeeding Democrat Dolph Briscoe. Rove was deputy director of the Governor William P. Clements Junior Committee in 1979 and 1980, and deputy executive assistant to the governor of Texas (roughly, Deputy Principal of Staff) in 1980 and 1981.^[26]

In 1981, Rove founded a direct mail consulting firm, Karl Rove & Co., in Austin. The firm's first clients included Texas Governor Neb Clements and Autonomous congressman Phil Gramm, who later became a Republican congressman and U.s.a. Senator. Rove operated his consulting business until 1999, when he sold the firm to take a total-fourth dimension position in George W. Bush's presidential campaign.

Between 1981 and 1999, Rove worked on hundreds of races. Nearly were in a supporting office, doing direct mail fundraising. A Nov 2004 Atlantic Monthly article estimated that he was the principal strategist for 41 statewide, congressional, and national races, and Rove'south candidates won 34 races.^[27]

Rove as well did work during those years for not-political clients. From 1991 to 1996, Rove advised tobacco giant Philip Morris, and ultimately earned $3,000 a month via a consulting contract. In a deposition, Rove testified that he severed the necktie in 1996 considering he felt awkward "near balancing that responsibility with his role as Bush's height political counselor" while Bush was governor of Texas and Texas was suing the tobacco industry.^{[28] [ citation needed ]}

1978 George W. Bush congressional campaign [edit]

Rove brash the younger Bush during his unsuccessful Texas congressional entrada in 1978.

1980 George H. W. Bush presidential campaign [edit]

In 1977, Rove was the first person hired by George H. W. Bush for his unsuccessful 1980 presidential campaign, which ended with Bush as the vice-presidential nominee.

1982 William Clements, Jr. gubernatorial campaign [edit]

In 1982, Rove returned to assisting Governor Bill Clements in his run for reelection, but was defeated by Democrat Mark White.

1982 Phil Gramm congressional campaign [edit]

In 1982, Phil Gramm was elected to the U.S. Business firm of Representatives as a conservative Texas Democrat.

1984 Phil Gramm senatorial entrada [edit]

In 1984, Rove helped Gramm, who had get a Republican in 1983, defeat Republican Ron Paul in the primary and Democrat Lloyd Doggett in the race for U.S. Senate.

1984 Ronald Reagan presidential entrada [edit]

Rove handled direct-post for the Reagan-Bush-league campaign.

1986 William Clements, Jr. gubernatorial entrada [edit]

In 1986, Rove helped Clements become governor a second time. In a strategy memo Rove wrote for his client prior to the race, now among Clements' papers in the Texas A&Grand University library, Rove quoted Napoleon: "The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely attentive defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack."

In 1986, only earlier a crucial debate in the campaign, Rove claimed that his role had been bugged by Democrats. The police and FBI investigated and discovered that the issues's battery was so small-scale that it needed to exist changed every few hours, and the investigation was dropped.^[29] Critics, including other Republican operatives, suspected Rove had bewitched his ain part to garner sympathy votes in the shut governor's race.^[30]

1988 Texas Supreme Court races [edit]

In 1988, Rove helped Thomas R. Phillips become the first Republican elected as Main Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Phillips had been appointed to the position in November 1987 by Clements. Phillips was re-elected in 1990, 1996 and 2002.^{[ citation needed ]}

Phillips' ballot in 1988 was role of an aggressive grassroots campaign called "Clean Slate '88", a conservative endeavour that was successful in getting five of its half dozen candidates elected. (Ordinarily at that place were three justices on the election each twelvemonth, on a 9-justice courtroom, but, because of resignations, there were six races for the Supreme Court on the ballot in November 1988.) By 1998, Republicans held all 9 seats on the Courtroom.

1990 Texas gubernatorial campaign [edit]

In 1989, Rove encouraged George W. Bush-league to run for Texas governor, brought in experts to tutor him on policy, and introduced him to local reporters. Eventually, Bush-league decided non to run, and Rove backed another Republican for governor who lost in the master.

Other 1990 Texas statewide races [edit]

In 1990, two other Rove candidates won: Rick Perry, the future governor of the state, became agricultural commissioner, and Kay Bailey Hutchison became land treasurer.

One notable aspect of the 1990 election was the charge that Rove had asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate major Autonomous officeholders in Texas. In his autobiography, Rove chosen the whole thing a "myth", proverb:

• The FBI did investigate Texas officials during that bridge, but I had cipher to do with it. The investigation was chosen "Brilab" and was part of a broad anti-corruption probe that looked at officials in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., too as Texas ... An official for the U.S. Section of Agriculture spotted expenses claimed by Hightower'south store that raised red flags ... enough to indict some of Hightower's top aides; they were later found guilty and sent to prison.
• The myth that I had something to do both with spurring the investigation and with airing all of this has stuck around because it is convenient for some to blame me rather than those aides who ran afoul of the law.^[31]

1991 Richard L. Thornburgh senatorial campaign and lawsuit [edit]

In 1991, United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh resigned to run for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania, one made vacant by John Heinz's death in a helicopter crash. Rove'south company worked for the campaign, but it ended with an upset loss to Democrat Harris Wofford.

Rover had been hired by an intermediary Murray Dickman to work for Thornburgh'due south entrada. Subsequently, Rove sued Thornburgh directly, alleging non-payment for services rendered. The Republican National Committee, worried that the suit would make it hard to recruit expert candidates, urged Rove to back off. When Rove refused, the RNC hired Kenneth Starr to write an amicus brief on Thornburgh'due south behalf. Karl Rove & Co. v. Thornburgh was heard past U.S. Federal Judge Sam Sparks, who had been appointed by George H.Westward. Bush in 1991. After a trial in Austin, Rove prevailed.^[9]

1992 George H. West. Bush presidential campaign [edit]

Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush presidential campaign after he planted a negative story with columnist Robert Novak about dissatisfaction with entrada fundraising primary Robert Mosbacher Jr.^[32] Novak'southward column suggested a motive when it described the firing of Mosbacher by former Senator Phil Gramm: "Also attention the session was political consultant Karl Rove, who had been shoved aside by Mosbacher." Novak and Rove denied that Rove leaked, but Mosbacher maintained that "Rove is the only ane with a motive to leak this. We let him become. I still believe he did it."^[33] During testimony before the CIA leak grand jury, Rove apparently confirmed his prior involvement with Novak in the 1992 campaign leak, according to National Periodical reporter Murray Waas.^[34]

1993–2000 [edit]

1993 Kay Bailey Hutchison senatorial campaign

Rove helped Hutchison win a special Senate election in June 1993. Hutchison defeated Democrat Bob Krueger to make full the last 2 years of Lloyd Bentsen's term. Bentsen had resigned to go Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration.

1994 Alabama Supreme Court races

In 1994, a group called the Business Quango of Alabama hired Rove to help run a slate of Republican candidates for the state supreme court. No Republican had been elected to that court in more than a century. The campaign by the Republicans was unprecedented in the state, which had previously only seen low-key contests. After the ballot, a court battle over absentee and other ballots followed that lasted more than eleven months. It ended when a federal appeals court judge ruled that disputed absentee ballots could not be counted, and ordered the Alabama Secretarial assistant of Country to certify the Republican candidate for Main Justice, Perry Hooper, as the winner. An appeal to the Supreme Court by the Democratic candidate was turned downward within a few days, making the ruling final. Hooper won past 262 votes.

Another candidate, Harold See, ran confronting Mark Kennedy, an incumbent Democratic justice and the son-in-law of George Wallace. The race included charges that Kennedy was mingling campaign funds with those of a non-turn a profit children'due south foundation he was involved with. A former Rove staffer reported that some within the Come across military camp initiated a whisper entrada that Kennedy was a pedophile.^[27] Kennedy won by less than one percentage point.

1994 John Ashcroft senatorial campaign

In 1993, Karl Rove & Company was paid $300,000 in consulting fees by Ashcroft'due south successful 1994 Senate campaign.^[35] Ashcroft paid Rove's company more than $700,000 over the grade of three campaigns.

1994 George W. Bush gubernatorial campaign

In 1993, Rove began advising George West. Bush in his successful campaign to become governor of Texas. Bush announced his candidacy in November 1993. Past January 1994, Bush had spent more than $600,000 on the race against incumbent Democrat Ann Richards, with $340,000 of that paid to Rove's firm.

Rove has been defendant of using the push poll technique to phone call voters to enquire such things as whether people would exist "more or less likely to vote for Governor Richards if [they] knew her staff is dominated by lesbians". Rove has denied having been involved in circulating these rumors about Richards during the entrada,^[36] although many critics however identify this technique, particularly as used in this case confronting Richards, as a hallmark of his career.^{[37] [38] [39]}

1996 Harold See'southward campaign for Acquaintance Justice, Alabama Supreme Court

A onetime campaign worker charged that, at Rove's behest, he distributed flyers that anonymously attacked Harold See, their own client. This put the opponent's campaign in an awkward position; public denials of responsibility for the scurrilous flyers would be implausible. Rove's customer was elected.^{[ citation needed ]}

1998 George W. Bush gubernatorial campaign

Rove was an adviser for Bush-league's 1998 reelection campaign. From July through December 1998, Bush'southward reelection commission paid Rove & Co. well-nigh $2.5 million, and also paid the Rove-owned Praxis List Company $267,000 for use of mailing lists. Rove says his work for the Bush campaign included direct mail, voter contact, phone banks, computer services, and travel expenses. Of the $2.5 million, Rove said, "[a]tour 30 per centum of that is postage". In all, Bush-league (primarily through Rove's efforts) raised $17.seven million, with $3.4 million unspent equally of March 1999.^[40] During the form of this campaign Rove's much-reported feud with Rick Perry began, with Perry's strategists assertive Rove gave Perry bad communication in social club to help Bush get a larger share of the Hispanic vote.^[41]

2000 Harold Run into campaign for Primary Justice

For the race to succeed Perry Hooper, who was retiring as Alabama's chief justice, Rove lined up back up for See from a bulk of the country's important Republicans.^[27]

2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign and the sale of Karl Rove & Co. [edit]

In early 1999, Rove sold his 20-yr-old direct-postal service business concern, Karl Rove & Co., which provided campaign services to candidates, along with Praxis List Visitor (in whole or part) to Ted Delisi and Todd Olsen, 2 young political operatives who had worked on campaigns of another Rove candidates. Rove helped finance the sale of the company, which had 11 employees. Selling Karl Rove & Co. was a condition that George West. Bush-league had insisted on before Rove took the job of main strategist for Bush-league'due south presidential bid.^[28]

During the Republican primary, Rove was accused of spreading faux rumors that John McCain had fathered an illegitimate blackness child. Rove denies the accusation.^[42]

George West. Bush assistants [edit]

Rove with George W. and Laura Bush

When George W. Bush was first inaugurated in January 2001, Rove accepted an appointment as Senior Advisor. He was subsequently given the title Deputy Chief of Staff to the President later on the successful 2004 Presidential election. In a November 2004 speech, Bush publicly thanked Rove, calling him "the architect" of his victory over John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.^[43] In April 2006, Rove was reassigned from his policy development role to one focusing on strategic and tactical planning in anticipation of the November 2006 congressional elections.^[44]

Republic of iraq War [edit]

Rove played a leading function in the pb-up to the Republic of iraq War.^{[45] [46]} In 2002 and 2003, Rove chaired meetings of the White Firm Republic of iraq Group (WHIG), an internal White Firm working grouping established in August 2002, eight months prior to the 2003 invasion of Republic of iraq. WHIG was charged with developing a strategy "for publicizing the White House'south assertion that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the United States.".^[47] The group pushed narratives within the administration about the Hussein regime possessing weapons of mass destruction (the regime had no active WMD program) and its ties to international terrorism (the Hussein regime had no operational human relationship with al-Qaeda).^[46] Members of WHIG included Bush-league's Primary of Staff Andrew Card, national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, her deputy Stephen Hadley, Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, legislative liaison Nicholas E. Calio, and communication strategists Mary Matalin, Karen Hughes, and James R. Wilkinson.

Quoting i unnamed WHIG member, the Washington Mail service explained that the task force's mission was to "brainwash the public" virtually the threat posed by Saddam and (in the reporters' words) "[to] set strategy for each stage of the confrontation with Baghdad". Rove's "strategic communications" chore force within WHIG helped write and coordinate speeches by senior Bush administration officials, emphasizing Iraq's purported nuclear threat.^[48] The White Business firm Iraq Grouping was "little known" until a subpoena for its notes, email, and attendance records was issued by CIA leak investigator Patrick Fitzgerald in January 2004.^{[47] [49]}

In 2015, Rove defended the decision to invade Republic of iraq, telling an Republic of iraq State of war veteran that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the U.s..^{[fifty] [51]} In 2010, Rove said his biggest mistake regarding the Republic of iraq State of war was to not push back on the narrative that the Bush-league administration lied the U.Due south. into the Iraq War.^{[52] [42] [53]}

Valerie Plame affair [edit]

On August 29, 2003, retired ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV claimed that Rove leaked the identity of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee,^[54] in retaliation for Wilson's op-ed in The New York Times in which he criticized the Bush administration'southward citation of the yellowcake documents among the justifications for the War in Iraq enumerated in Bush-league's 2003 State of the Union Address.

In late August 2006, it became known that Richard L. Armitage was responsible for the leak. The investigation led to felony charges being filed against Lewis "Scooter" Libby for perjury and obstacle of justice. Eventually, Libby was found guilty past a jury.^[55]

On June thirteen, 2006, prosecutors said they would not charge Rove with any wrongdoing.^[56] Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald stated previously that "I can tell you that the substantial bulk of the work of this investigation is concluded."

On July 13, 2006, Plame sued Cheney, Rove, Libby, and others, accusing them of conspiring to destroy her career.^[57]

On May 2, 2007, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Chaser General Gonzales compelling the Department of Justice to produce all email from Rove regarding the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy, no matter what email account Rove may have used, with a deadline of May 15, 2007, for compliance. The subpoena too demanded relevant e-mail previously produced in the Valerie Plame controversy and the investigation regarding the CIA leak scandal (2003).^[58] On August 31, 2007, Karl Rove resigned without responding to the Senate Judiciary Commission subpoena, proverb, "I just recollect it'southward time to exit."^{[59] [60] [61]}

Scott McClellan claims in his book What Happened: Within the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, published in the leap of 2008 by Public Affairs Books, that the statements he fabricated in 2003 about Rove's lack of involvement in the Valerie Plame affair were untrue, and that he had been encouraged to repeat such untruths. His volume has been widely disputed, nonetheless, with many key members of McClellan'southward own staff telling a completely different story. Former CNN commentator Robert Novak has questioned if McClelland wrote the book himself. Information technology was also revealed that the publisher was seeking a negative book to increase sales.^{[62] [63]}

2006 Congressional elections and beyond [edit]

On October 24, 2006, 2 weeks before the Congressional election, in an interview with National Public Radio's Robert Siegel, Rove insisted that his insider polling data forecast Republican retentiveness of both houses.^[64] In the election the Democrats won both houses of Congress. The White House Message, published by Bulletin News, cited rumors of Rove's impending departure from the White Firm staff: "'Karl represents the erstwhile style and he'south got to go if the Democrats are going to believe Bush'south talk of getting forth', said a fundamental Bush advisor." ^[65] However, while allowing that many Republican members of Congress are "resentful of the manner he and the White House conducted the losing campaign", the New York Times also stated that, "White House officials say President Bush has every intention of keeping Mr. Rove on through the remainder of his term." ^[66]

In Rove's assay, ten of the 28 House seats Republicans lost were sacrificed considering of various scandals. Some other half dozen, he said, were lost because incumbents did not recognize and react chop-chop enough to the threat. Rove argued that, without abuse and complacency, the Democrats would have gained effectually a dozen seats and Republicans could take kept narrow command of the House regardless of Bush's troubles and the state of war.^{[67] [68]}

Torture [edit]

Rove defended the Bush administration's use of torture.^[53]

Due east-postal service scandal [edit]

Due to investigations into White House staffers' e-mail communication related to the controversy over the dismissal of United States Attorneys, it was discovered that many White Firm staff members, including Rove, had exchanged documents using Republican National Committee email servers such every bit gwb43.com^[69] and georgewbush.com^[70] or personal east-mail accounts with third political party providers such equally BlackBerry,^[71] considered a violation of the Presidential Records Human activity. Over 500 of Rove's emails were mistakenly sent to a parody website, who forwarded them to an investigative reporter.^[72]

Congressional subpoenas [edit]

On May 22, 2008, Rove was subpoenaed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers to bear witness on the politicization of the Section of Justice. Simply on July ten, Rove refused to obey the congressional subpoena, citing executive privilege as his reason.^{[73] [74]}

On February 23, 2009, Rove was required past Congressional subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary Commission apropos his cognition of the controversy over the dismissal of 7 U.S. Attorneys, and the alleged political prosecution of one-time Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, but did not appear on that engagement. He and quondam White House Counsel Harriet Miers later agreed to bear witness nether adjuration before Congress nigh these matters.^[75]

On July 7 and July thirty, 2009, Rove testified before the House Judiciary Committee regarding questions nearly the dismissal of seven U.S. Attorneys under the Bush Administration. Rove was likewise questioned regarding the federal prosecution of onetime Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, who was convicted of fraud. The Committee concluded that Rove had played a meaning role in the Attorney firings.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Activities afterwards leaving the White House [edit]

Activities in 2008 [edit]

Before long after leaving the White Business firm, Rove was hired to write about the 2008 Presidential Ballot for Newsweek.^[76] He was too later hired as a contributor for the Wall Street Journal and a political analyst for Fox News. Rove was an informal advisor to 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, and donated $two,300 to his entrada.^[77] His memoir, Courage and Result, was published in March 2010.^{[31] [78]} 1 advance reviewer, Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, said of the volume that Rove "revives claims discredited long ago".^[79] The controversial book inspired a grassroots stone and curl compilation of a like name, Courage and Upshot,^[80] that was released a calendar week before the memoir.

On March 9, 2008, Rove appeared at the University of Iowa as a paid speaker to a crowd of approximately ane,000. He was met with hostility and ii students were removed by police force later on attempting a citizen's arrest for alleged crimes committed during his time with the Bush administration. Almost the end of the oral communication, a member of the audience asked, "Can nosotros take our $xl,000 back?" Rove replied, "No, you can't."^[81]

On June 24, 2008, Rove said of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, "Even if you never met him, y'all know this guy. He's the guy at the country society with the cute date, property a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments virtually everyone."^[82]

In July 2008, Rove, who was hired by Flim-flam News to provide assay for the network'due south November 2008 election coverage, defended his role on the news team to the Television Critics Association.^[83]

Rove agreed to debate old presidential candidate and former Senator John Edwards on September 26, 2008, at the University at Buffalo.^[84] However, Edwards dropped out and was replaced by General Wesley Clark.^[85]

2009–present [edit]

In September 2009, Rove was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame. The consecration became a major dispute as political views clashed over the announcement. Governor John Hoeven was scheduled to introduce Rove during the SAHF banquet only did non attend. At that time, Rove was existence investigated by Democrats in Congress for his function in the 2006 dismissal of nine U.S. Attorneys.^[86]

In 2010, with former RNC chair Ed Gillespie, Rove helped found American Crossroads, a Republican 527 arrangement raising money for the 2012 ballot effort.^[87] Rove serves every bit an informal adviser for this Super-PAC.^[88]

In a profile which appeared in the December xv, 2011 issue of The New Republic, Rove, with his hands-on involvement with American Crossroads, was described as one of the shrewdest navigators of the political climate after the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision which exempted political broadcasts funded by corporations and unions from campaign finance limits. "Rove had no role in creating this new legal environment... just if Rove and his allies did non invent it, they certainly were adroit at exploiting it."^[89]

Following Todd Akin's comments regarding "legitimate rape" and the notion that raped women are unlikely to go pregnant, Rove joked about murdering the Missouri Senate candidate, maxim "We should sink Todd Akin. If he'south found mysteriously murdered, don't expect for my whereabouts!"^{[ninety] [91]} After multiple news outlets picked upward on the story, Rove apologized for the remark.^[92] Rove's Crossroads GPS arrangement had previously pulled its television advertising from Missouri in the wake of the comments.^[93]

On November 6, 2012, Rove protested Fox News' call of the 2012 presidential election for Obama, prompting host Megyn Kelly to ask him, "Is this just math that you practice as a Republican to make yourself experience better? Or is this real?"^{[94] [95] [96]}

In 2013 Rove and the PAC American Crossroads created the Conservative Victory Project for the purpose of supporting electable conservative candidates.^[97] These efforts have attracted criticism, and even personal attacks, from elements within the Tea Political party movement.^[98]

Rove'south history, The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Nevertheless Matters, was published in 2015.^[99]

In 2017, Rove's 501(c)(4) dark money group One Nation nonprofit raised nearly $17 million, according to IRS revenue enhancement filings released in Nov 2018.^[100]

Rove has lobbied on behalf of Rivada Networks, a communications engineering business.^{[101] [102]}

In December 2019, Rove predicted that the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries would consequence in a contested convention; in December 2020, afterward Joe Biden was nominated at the 2020 Democratic National Convention with a clear majority of delegates, Political leader named Rove'southward prediction i of "the most audacious, confident and spectacularly wrong prognostications about the year".^[103]

Rove was an advisor to Donald Trump'southward 2020 presidential entrada.^[104] In May 2020, Rove defendant sometime president Obama of engaging in a "political drive by shooting" later on Obama gave a start speech communication to historically black colleges where he criticized the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic.^[105]

Rove worked every bit a guest professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall semester of 2021.^[106] He taught a course for UT'due south Plan Two Honors department chosen Modern American Political Campaigns. Each calendar week Rove invited guest speakers for the students to interview including James Carville and Mary Matalin, former Secretary of State James Baker, Jonathon Swan, Ken Melhman, and others. The class was protested by a variety of students accusing Rove of being a state of war criminal.^[107]

Personal life [edit]

Rove married Houston socialite Valerie Mather Wainwright, on July x, 1976. He moved to Texas in January 1977. His sister and father said that "the wedding [that] was so extravagant that [we] ... still recall it with awe".^[108] Rove and Wainwright divorced in early 1980.^[109] In January 1986, Rove married Darby Tara Hickson,^[15] a breast cancer survivor, graphic designer, and onetime employee of Karl Rove & Visitor. Rove and Hickson have one son, Andrew Madison Rove, who attended Trinity Academy in San Antonio, Texas.^[110] Rove and Hickson divorced in December 2009.^[111] In June 2012, Rove married lobbyist Karen Johnson in Austin, Texas. The wedding was attended by George W. Bush and Steve Wynn.^[112]

Rove resides in the Georgetown department of Washington, D.C., and also keeps a house virtually Austin, Texas.^[113] In 2002, Rove built a home in Rosemary Embankment, Florida, simply outside Destin; the home included a television studio for remote news appearances.^[114]

In a 2007 interview with the New York Review of Books, atheist Christopher Hitchens claimed that Rove was "not a believer".^[115] However, in 2010, Rove told Kamy Akhavan of ProCon.org in an email exchange that Hitchens had misinterpreted a quote of his nearly feeling that the organized religion of other White House staffers was stronger than his ain and stating "I am a practicing Christian who attends a Bible-centered Episcopal church in Washington and an Anglican church in Texas."^[116]

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• Rove, Karl (2010). Courage and Consequence: My Life every bit a Bourgeois in the Fight . Threshold Editions. ISBN978-1439191057.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Appearances on C-Span
• Karl Rove at IMDb
• Karl Rove on Charlie Rose
• Works by or about Karl Rove in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• "Karl Rove nerveless news and commentary". The New York Times.
• Karl Rove – The Builder, Frontline documentary on PBS
• Karl Rove at Curlie

Political offices
Preceded by Sid Blumenthal Joel Johnson Doug Sosnik	Senior Advisor to the President 2001–2007	Succeeded by Barry Jackson
Preceded by Harriet Miers	White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy 2005–2007	Succeeded by Joel Kaplan

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