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| | The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | James A. Baker III, the future Secretary of State, ran a well-financed race for Texas attorney general in 1978, and lost. |
 | | James Moore and Wayne Slater, the authors of a new and generally unfavorable Rove biography called “Bush’s Brain,” found a memo he wrote Clements in which he suggested renting the subscriber list of Krugerrand Buyer, a magazine for investors in the South African gold currency, because they’d be good Republican donor prospects. |
 | | Years before the 2000 campaign was under way, Rove began orchestrating a procession of politicians, lobbyists, intellectuals, journalists, and organizers to Austin to meet Bush—a stratagem that echoed the “front-porch campaign” in Canton, Ohio, that the supposedly reluctant William McKinley, one of Rove’s favorite historical figures, ran before the 1896 Presidential election. |
| www.newyorker.com /printables/fact/030512fa_fact3 (8446 words) |
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