15 February 2013
A "Who's Who" of American conservatives
Talking Points Memo has a slideshow with pictures of America's leading conservatives. If you follow American politics, you will see the names of these people a lot (or, sometimes, will be reading their work). Since this is a slideshow, you need to click the little buttons along the top to move from picture to picture. It's a bit unfortunate for our purposes that the captions explain what these individuals are doing now -- basically, fighting each other over the future of the Republican Party -- and not the backgrounds that made them famous: for instance, it's not mentioned that Karl Rove, who is at the center of that fight, was the chief political strategist to President George W. Bush. Still, if you like "putting face to names," this is helpful.
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Speaking of Karl Rove, it occurs to me that some of you might find this angle interesting -- in the early 1970s he was leader of the "College Republicans," a national organization of university students that supports the Republican Party. What I did not know before, until I checked Wikipedia just now, is that this is what brought him to the attention of the Bush family -- George Bush Sr., father of George W. Bush (and also US president, 1989-1993) was then the national Republican Party chairman:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove#College_Republicans.2C_Watergate.2C_and_the_Bushes
I also did not know the story of how Rove's questionable political tactics became part of the story of Watergate, the biggest political scandal in US history, which was happening just then and which eventually forced then-President Richard Nixon's resignation. The things you can learn from Wikipedia! ;-)