Karl Rove: I Wasn't Bush's Brain

Karl Rove dismisses the notion that he was George W. Bush's "brain" as the oldest political trick in the book. “If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler," he tells Matt Lauer of Today. “I’ve known him for almost four decades," says Rove, who's making the rounds to push his new book. "He is a really smart person. To suggest that I was his brain is derogatory about him." (More Karl Rove stories.)