Check out Rove in the '72 Nixon campaign

I found this on the Internets today - it's footage of a special report on President Nixon's 1972 reelection effort by Dan Rather of CBS News.

It's pretty creepy to see Karl Rove at his 22-year-old dorky best, working for the Nixon campaign. Considering what Nixon and his campaign cronies became known for, it's not difficult to surmise where the smarmy Rove learned his trade.

Of course, we all now know about Watergate, but it's still just a little bizarre to hear John Mitchell, the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP), Jeb McGruder, etc. on tape before it all came crashing down. I guess it's a bit stranger for me, because I didn't live through it. (Technically I did, but I was much too young to remember.)

It's one of the reasons I find the Nixon administration so fascinating - its tentacles still reach deep into our government, and Karl Rove is just one example.

Even Henry Kissinger, the former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State from the Nixon and Ford administrations, still makes news; he recently stated publicly that the War in Iraq is unwinnable. It looks like the sage, Pulitzer-Prize winning war criminal may have finally wised up. He reportedly meets every other month with President Bush and every month with Dick Cheney.

If that's the case, Kissinger needs to shout a little louder, because both men don't seem to be listening.