Robert Mosbacher

Robert Adam Mosbacher (born March 11, 1927) is a U.S. businessman. He was the Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992.

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March 11 - 1927 - U.S. - Secretary of Commerce - 1989 - 1992

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Mosbacher's primary claim to fame was his competition for presidential campaign contracts with the first President Bush.

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In 1992, "Sources close to the former president say Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush presidential campaign after he planted a negative story with columnist Robert Novak about dissatisfaction with campaign fundraising chief and Bush loyalist Robert Mosbacher Jr. It was smoked out, and he was summarily ousted" (Esquire Magazine, January 2003). As Novak provided some evidence of Rove's motive in his column describing former senator Phil Gramm's later firing of Mosbacher: "Also attending the session was political consultant Karl Rove, who had been shoved aside by Mosbacher". Mosbacher maintains that "Rove is the only one with a motive to leak this. We let him go. I still believe he did it."

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1992 - Rove - Robert Novak - Esquire Magazine - Phil Gramm

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Before this he was national finance campaign chairman for President Ford in

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1976. He was also a Member of President Reagan´s Task Force on Private Sector

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Intiatives 1981-1983, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Schoolars. He then became Secretary of Commerce in 1989 after directed the George H. W Bush 1988 Presidential Election Campaign.

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