Karl Rove, chief of staff for President Bush, to address Valley political club

Staff report

NILES

Karl Rove, who was senior adviser and deputy chief of staff for former President George W. Bush, will be the keynote speaker at the annual McKinley Club banquet on Feb 22.

The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Niles McKinley Memorial Auditorium, 40 N. Main St., Niles.

Rove’s visit is part of a promotional tour for his book, “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight,” which made the New York Times’ best-seller list.

The book provides a behind-the-scenes view of how President Bush got to the White House and of the major events of his presidency.

“It’s a frank account of what I witnessed and my often-controversial role, and it spells out what goes into winning a modern political campaign,” Rove said.

Rove is now a Fox News contributor and a Newsweek columnist and writes a weekly op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal.

Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.