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| POLITICO Interview: Karl Rove - Politico.com Posted: 11 Mar 2010 04:54 AM PST POLITICO
March, 11, 2010
(Recorded March 9, 2010)
INTERVIEWER: MIKE ALLEN, White House Correspondent, Politico
GUEST: KARL ROVE, author of "Courage and Consequence" MR. ALLEN: I'm Mike Allen, POLITICO's Chief White House Correspondent, and we're here in New York with Karl Rove, who has just published his memoir, "Courage and Consequence."Karl, thanks for having us in.
MR. ROVE: Thanks, Mike. White House, incidentally, is a couple hundred miles south and at the corner of 17 and Pennsylvania Avenue. You're a little bit, you know, lost here, man. This is New York City.
MR. ALLEN: But, we figure you'll—you'll show us the way. Courage and Consequence, who does that refer to?
MR. ROVE: The "courage" I refer to is principally that of President Bush, and the "consequences" are the—both the consequential times in which he governed and the consequences of the big decisions that he made.
MR. ALLEN: Now, in this book, you're candid for the first time about your dad. Why did you decide to get so personal?
MR. ROVE: Actually, I didn't start out to be that personal about it, but last January, a year ago, 2009, my editor came to me and said, "You can't show up at the age of 43 in this book helping Bush run for governor, and people are going to want to know where you came from. And oh, incidentally, I've happened to look at the biographies written about you, and here are the ugly things that they say about you and your family." And so this was an opportunity for me to set the record straight about my parents. My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother. And so it was a welcome opportunity to set the record straight.
MR. ALLEN: And what do you think—have—how have people responded to the fact that Karl Rove, who had always been very on-message, very disciplined, very guarded, suddenly is being very candid?
MR. ROVE: Well, I don't know. Look, I've always been candid. It's just that people haven't, you know—the opportunity to talk about my parents or my upbringing or some of the early myths—you know, when you're in the White House and when you're in—when you're living life at the speed that I lived it from the start from the start of the presidential campaign through my departure from the White House, you know, you get a choice, which is you can either deal with the myths that grow up about you or you can do your day job, and I chose to do my day job, but this book does give me a chance to sort of deal with some of those myths of Rove that have—
MR. ALLEN: But you benefited from a lot of the myths around you.
MR. ROVE: Well, I don't know if I'd say that. I mean, you know, being able—being depicted as I was in some of these things made it a hard thing for my family. But, you know—
MR. ALLEN: But you were depicted as having your hands in everything, being all-knowing—all controlling. You didn't do anything to really discourage that.
MR. ROVE: Well, I think I did by being myself, because I clearly wasn't having my hands in everything and I certainly wasn't all-knowing. But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf—you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
MR. ALLEN: Now, Karl, what did you learn in the White House that you wished you'd known before you went in?
MR. ROVE: I wish I had known that—that—how hard some of these things are to do and how consistent they are requiring of effort, because it—I would have tackled it with—tackled some of these things with, you know, more energy earlier. The second thing is—
MR. ALLEN: Wait. Like what?
MR. ROVE: Well, like, for example, Bush met with over a hundred-and-some-odd members of the opposition party in his first several months in office, and I wish we had, you know—and which was un—which was an unprecedented level of outreach, and he had to do it in the aftermath of the highly contentious 2000 election. But I wish we'd done even more because—
MR. ALLEN: Well, and if he'd kept up things might have been very different.
MR. ROVE: Well, and we did—we did keep up, but, I mean, you know, there's a certain pace that you have and then, you know, you get drawn into events; particularly after 9/11 there were large swatches of time which had been available for those kind of activities that now—and rather than being able to entertain people in the private quarters of the White House or have meetings with, you know, one or two or three or four Democrats in the Oval Office, you now had to have a secure "civets" with your battlefield commanders, for example, or you had to meet with the moms and dads and sons and daughters of those who lost their lives in Iraq or Afghanistan. So there—there are constraints in time. The second thing is is that I would—I think I would have learned more patience because, for example, 2001, Bush puts together an energy task force, and it finally produces legislation and a bill, but it takes four years. The—the Cheney task forces leads to a series of legislative initiatives which then leads to a series of discussions and—and maneuvering with the Congress and discussions and negotiations which finally, ultimately generate a very large bill.
MR. ALLEN: Okay. So—so play—play—play "McKenzie" for the White House. How would you short circuit that process or how would you speed up that process? What should you have done?
MR. ROVE: I don't think you can. I don't think you can, in fact, because McKenzie gets trumped by the triumvirate of Madison, Jefferson and Hamilton. You know, the—well, Jefferson's not in there because he didn't help write the Constitution. He's off in France. But our Founders designed the process not to be speedy, designed the process to be deliberate and slow and restrained. And so, you know, there is a desire once you get in there to try and get these things done, done, done, done done [snapping fingers], and it doesn't—it doesn't work that way.
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CHAPTER OPEN
MR. ALLEN: Now, President Obama's aids are feeling the heat right now for lack of speed. There's a lot of palace intrigue stories now going around—going on about the President's top advisors, Rahm Emanuel, the Chief of Staff; David Axelrod, who has your title, Senior Advisor. Do you thing the press is being fair to them?
MR. ROVE: I don't think it was as good as it was in the beginning and I don't think it's as bad as it is today, but it is bad. And I think the fundamental mistake—
MR. ALLEN: What do you mean by "bad"?
MR. ROVE: Well, I don't—I think they fundamentally—they made a fundamental mistake. You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do. And what they've done is they've tried to jam too many things through that funnel, and it's the—the Congress has had a limited capacity to deal with it. Second of all, legislation as complicated as they've attempted to do with the stimulus or with the cap and trade or with the health care needs the personal involvement of the President in setting the tone and setting the parameters. I was shocked when the President had a March 5, 2009, meeting bipartisan and bicameral to kick off health care reform and the next such meeting he has is February 25 of 2010. I was shocked when John Boehner said that he had not had a substantive meeting at the White House in months and had not had contact with the White House Chief of Staff for months.
MR. ALLEN: Okay but— MR. ROVE: That's unusual. MR. ALLEN: So it sounds like—as far as the current media storm, it sounds like you have a little sympathy for them.
MR. ROVE: I have a sym—I have a certain sympathy for the criticism. I also understand that it's not as—I mean, for example, there's been a lot of attention paid to internecine and warfare ostensibly between David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel. I'm not—you know, there's a tendency by the press to overplay that and I—so I have a little sympathy for them on that. But I do think the press has got it right, that the administration has a disengaged, aloof president who has not set the tone with regard to legislation. To me, one of the key moments was December of 2008. In fact, I wrote about it early in 2009. When they—when President-elect Obama sends Geithner and Summers to Capitol Hill to say, "We need a stimulus and we need between 650 and 750," two mistakes were made. They said, "We'll take 650 to 750, but we'll accept up to 850." You don't tell Congress we would like to be in between these but we're willing to accept up to here without them going to their—
MR. ALLEN: Well, all those plans had been put in their place under your president.
MR. ROVE: No, I'm talking about the $787 billion stimulus bill. Did the TARP program—is that what you're referring to? The bank bailout bill?
MR. ALLEN: Right.
MR. ROVE: Yeah. Look, the bank bailout worked. President Bush gave—
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| Fin Whale Returns to Natural History Museum - Los Angeles Weekly Posted: 11 Mar 2010 05:44 AM PST Everybody wants a piece of boxer Manny Pacquiao. They want tickets to his fights. They want his autograph, his money, his time. They want him to clobber the second best fighter in the world, Floyd Mayweather Jr., whose recent accusation that Pacquiao must be using steroids caused their could-have-been-historic matchup to disintegrate. They want Pacquiao to fight somebody, anybody, so the ride won't have to stop. These days, Pacquiao's future is uncertain. He has put in a bid for congress in his home country, the Philippines. Will he win? Will they let him be the political leader he wants to be? Will they let him stop fighting? In Hollywood's Wild Card Gym, weeks deep into training camp, Pacquiao jabs the air, shadowboxing against an invisible opponent, emitting machine gun–like humming noises: "Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm!" People call him a machine, a phenomenon, a god. Fans and enemies alike want to understand how he keeps conquering, keeps getting stronger and faster. How he has climbed seven separate weight classes and brought home seven world titles, a feat unheard of in the history of the sport. "Boksing kasi hindi pang matagal iyon," Pacquiao says in his native tongue. Boxing is not for forever. Then he winds the white tape around his hands as he has a thousand times before. 1. DIRT He was dirt. The floor of his house was made of dirt. The walls were thatched. His entire family of seven squatted in the house, small as a prison cell, sleeping on cardboard boxes. There is no deprivation like Third World deprivation. "They were invisible," says Winchell Campos, who is writing the boxer's biography. "They would die and nobody would care." Pacquiao dropped out of elementary school to sell doughnuts, ice water and fish he caught from the sea. One day in 1990, watching television, he saw the invincible Mike Tyson fall to James "Buster" Douglas, and fell in love with boxing. The underdog can win, he learned. He punched a rubber flip-flop tied around the trunk of a palm tree. He imagined himself a champion. He was 11 years old. At 14, he ran away from home, from sleepy General Santos City in the lawless southern tip of the Philippines, a rusty, run-down town lost in time. He stowed away on a ship bound for the megacity Manila. Before boxing training in the afternoon, he welded steel at a factory, then used his weekly pay to buy flowers, which he would sell on the streets for twice the price. At 16, he turned pro, a gangly 106 pounds. He fought like a mad dog, wild and out of control. How does it start, this decade's most captivating sports winning streak? When the student is ready, they say, the master will appear. It is 2001. Pacquiao is 22 years old, on his first trip to America, working his way West from the East Coast, going from gym to gym in search of a trainer. Everyone turns him down. He is too small, they say. There is no money in the lower weight divisions. Boxing is obsessed with giants, with Tyson and Evander Holyfield, heavyweights who lumber around the ring like ogres. Pacquiao climbs the stairs to the scruffy Wild Card, his second-to-last stop before heading home in defeat. He works one round of mitts with coach Freddie Roach, who has always believed the little guys make better fighters. Roach once fought as a little guy, too, long before the Parkinson's set in, before the Botox injections to the neck, before the daily pills and discussions of brain surgery. "Usually it takes time to get to know somebody because timing is a little bit different, a little awkward," the coach recalls. "But me and him, it was like we'd been doing it our whole lives." In that instant, Roach found his ideal student. Pacquiao, his "master of boxing." Manny Pacquiao's early days in Los Angeles: Walking. He and his entourage of one, Buboy Fernandez, childhood best friend and neighbor from General Santos City, pound the pavement for half an hour every day, from their rented apartment on Sunset Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue, under the 101 freeway, to the gym at Santa Monica and Vine. They can't afford a car. Eventually, Pacquiao befriends a Filipino taxicab driver, who shuttles them around town for free. Those who knew Pacquiao in his days before fame and fortune hoard their memories of him and dispense them like treasure. In an early fight, the "Duel in Davao," Roach sends his brother, retired boxer Pepper Roach, to the Philippines with Pacquiao. At the Pacquiao family's house in General Santos City, they use a cup and a bucket of water in place of a shower. At a local hotel, Pepper finds an alligator snuggling in his bed. "That is not an alligator," says the chambermaid. "That is an iguana." She shoos it out with a broom. "Not that one," Buboy says later on, grabbing Pepper's arm as he is about to step on a bus. "It has bombs on it." It is 2002, and the world has gone mad, still reeling from 9/11. Buboy gazes at Pepper with a serious expression, then bursts into laughter. Filipino humor is dark, fatalistic. Traveling through the dense Philippine jungle in a ramshackle bus, they passed bare-chested men with machine guns, Pepper the sole white man in a sea of brown skin. A guy on the bus suggests, "You might want to duck. There's Taliban here." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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HISTORY™ and HISTORY HD™ are the leading destinations for revealing, award-winning original non-fiction series and event-driven specials that connect history with viewers in an informative, immersive and entertaining manner across multiple platforms. Programming covers a diverse variety of historical genres ranging from military history to contemporary history, technology to natural history, as well as science, archaeology and pop culture. Among the network's program offerings are hit series such as Ax Men, Battle 360, How The Earth Was Made, Ice Road Truckers, Pawn Stars and The Universe, as well as acclaimed specials including 102 Minutes That Changed America, 1968 with Tom Brokaw, King, Life After People, Nostradamus: 2012, Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed and WWII in HD. HISTORY has earned four Peabody Awards, seven Primetime Emmy® Awards, 12 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards and received the prestigious Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the network's Save Our History® campaign dedicated to historic preservation and history education. Take a Veteran to School Day is the network's latest initiative connecting America's schools and communities with veterans from all wars. The HISTORY web site, located at www.history.com :
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| HISTORY TM 'S Television Series "BATTLES BC," Wins ... - Market Wire Posted: 11 Mar 2010 05:59 AM PST SOURCE: Ensequence Interactivity Developed by Ensequence NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - HISTORY has garnered two awards for the interactive TV content in its television series, BATTLES BC. The series was awarded Best iTV Program by DISH Network at its 9th Annual Interactive Television Summit Awards and the Best Newcomer at the recent TV of Tomorrow Show 2010 in San Francisco. Ensequence, an interactive television company, partnered with HISTORY to develop the interactive content for BATTLES BC. BATTLES BC, an eight-episode series that premiered on HISTORY in 2009, explored the battle strategies and tactics used by ancient commanders such as Hannibal, David, Caesar and Alexander. The tales of historic battles and bloodshed were enhanced with interactive TV content that enabled viewers to access additional content during the show, review the biographies and credentials of on-camera historical experts, and view a gallery of images highlighting the production aspects of the program series. In addition, a game synchronized to the content of each episode allowed viewers to play along -- testing their knowledge of strategic choices made during history's greatest battles. "Our partnerships with HISTORY and DISH Network gave us the opportunity to showcase what's possible with iTV," said Peter Low, Ensequence President and CEO. "HISTORY and DISH Network are great to work with, and we're pleased by the industry's recognition." HISTORY™ and HISTORY HD™ are the leading destinations for revealing, award-winning original non-fiction series and event-driven specials that connect history with viewers in an informative, immersive and entertaining manner across multiple platforms. Programming covers a diverse variety of historical genres ranging from military history to contemporary history, technology to natural history, as well as science, archaeology and pop culture. Among the network's program offerings are hit series such as Ax Men, Battle 360, How The Earth Was Made, Ice Road Truckers, Pawn Stars and The Universe, as well as acclaimed specials including 102 Minutes That Changed America, 1968 with Tom Brokaw, King, Life After People, Nostradamus: 2012, Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed and WWII in HD. HISTORY has earned four Peabody Awards, seven Primetime Emmy® Awards, 12 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards and received the prestigious Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the network's Save Our History® campaign dedicated to historic preservation and history education. Take a Veteran to School Day is the network's latest initiative connecting America's schools and communities with veterans from all wars. The HISTORY web site, located at www.history.com, is the definitive historical online source that delivers entertaining and informative content featuring broadband video, interactive timelines, maps, games and more. About Ensequence Media Contacts: Carole Shander Public Relations Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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