Working for Bush has its perks. Newly filed records with the Office of Government Ethics show that in 2005, the Kennedy Center comped four tickets worth $8,000 to Bolten, including admission to the Kennedy Center Honors, while Rove received a $500 ticket to a spring gala. That wasn’t Rove’s only gift. Katherine Armstrong, owner of the Texas ranch where Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man in February, chipped in with Bush adviser Mark McKinnon and nine others to buy Rove a $2,073 gun–a Beretta 687 Silver Pigeon II 20-gauge hunting shotgun –while Nancy Reagan gave him a $411 collectible box with silver coins and the late president Ronald Reagan’s signature.
Correction: In Periscope’s “Thanks so Much!” (July 24) Stuart Baker was wrongly identified as the “policy chief” at the Department of Homeland Security. Actually, Stewart Baker is head of policy for DHS. Stuart Baker, a DHS analyst who worked on the administration’s report on its response to Hurricane Katrina, is now director for lessons learned. NEWSWEEK regrets the error.
