He cited a second, post-election memorandum in which Douglas Simon, the drug office's White House liaison, described a meeting where Mr. Rove thanked Mr. Walters and his deputies for giving their time to go to "the god awful places we sent them" during the campaign.
A post-Election Day memorandum arguing that he deserves some credit for helping to make Mr. Obama the nation's 44th president cannot hurt.
Within the past hour, the director of the division of elections faxed a memorandum to the supervisors of elections in these three Florida counties.
After Mr. Williams's election to speaker, a memorandum written by Mr. Mumpower surfaced detailing a 2007 complaint by Representative Susan Lynn, a Republican, who said that Mr. Williams had complimented her beauty and added, "I will give a week's pay just to see you naked".
Matthew Dowd, a pollster and senior adviser to Mr. Bush's re-election campaign, wrote a memorandum last year saying the president needed to win at least 40percentt of the support of Hispanic voters next year.
By Wednesday morning, his staff had offered a glimpse of its general-election strategy, releasing a 2008 memorandum from Hillary Rodham Clinton's pollster complaining that Mr. Obama's campaign had "engaged in a mean-spirited, unfair character attack" on her, using language that was "patently false and demeaning".
"A change of this magnitude has never before been proposed this late in the four-year election cycle," the board said in a memorandum marked "Urgent".
By the time the court issued its order, the woman had been informed that she was eligible to vote and the county had released a detailed memorandum explaining the law to election and corrections officials.
"This morning, as for some days past," Lincoln wrote in a memorandum some time before the election, "it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected.
In interviews, Republican politicians and their aides said they agreed with the strategist, Frank Luntz, that it was important to pay attention to what his memorandum, written before the November elections, called "the environmental communications battle".
"As Mitt Romney moves through the Republican primaries, he finds himself in an increasingly weak position among every category of voter critical for a Republican to win the general election," the campaign manager, Jim Messina, said in a memorandum to reporters.
