Rove and Nixon and Anne Armstrong and the Work Yet to Be Done
I did a post last year, not long after Dick Cheney shot an old man in the face, tracing the ties between the Armstrong family and Republican corruption. I showed how Anne Armstrong has been present at all the big-name Republican scandals going back to Watergate.
| Anne Armstrong Event | Associated Republican Scandal | |
| 1971-1973 | RNC Co-Chair | Watergate |
| 1973-1974 | Cabinet-level Counselor to Nixon and Ford | Watergate |
| 1976-1977 | Ambassador to the UK | Â |
| 1980 | Reagan-Bush Campaign Co-Chair | October Surprise |
| 1977-2000 | Board Member, Halliburton | Cheney commissions KBR to studyprivatization of military contracts (1991); Cheney named CEO Halliburton (1995) |
| 1981-1990 | Chair, Foreign IntelligenceAdvisory Board | Iran-Contra |
| 1981 | Â | Armstrongs fund Karl Rove + Company |
| 1997 | Texas A&M Regent | George HW Bush Library opens atTAMU, 1997 |
(Later in the same post, I showed how Anne’s daughter Katharine, always seems to be present when Bush is pitching an illegal war.)
That post focused primarily on the long-term connections between Cheney and the Armstrong family, right through the days when Cheney launched Halliburton’s KBR unit onto the military gravy train. But the post noted, too, that the Armstrongs have been equally tight with Karl Rove over the years.
And apparently, one of the finds from the recently-released Nixon materials shows how far back this relationship goes.
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