Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Published: July 14, 2007

WASHINGTON, July 13 — The year was 1973, and Karl Rove was looking for help — from the Nixon White House.

Tucked away inside 78,000 pages of documents from the Nixon administration, released by the National Archives earlier this week, is a little gem: a strategy memorandum from the man who would go on to become the architect of President Bush’s rise to political power.