Editing Strategery (section)

==Becoming a Bush catchphrase==
After the [[2000 United States presidential election|2000 presidential election]], people inside the Bush White House reportedly began using the term as a joke, but it later became a [[Technical terminology|term of art]] meaning the oversight of any activity by Bush's [[Political consulting|political consultants]]. Bush's strategists also came to be known within the White House as "The Department of Strategery", or the "Strategery Group".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Susskind|first1=Ron|title=Why Are These Men Laughing?|url=http://ronsuskind.com/why-are-these-men-laughing/|publisher=Esquire|date=January 1, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315034140/http://ronsuskind.com/why-are-these-men-laughing/|archive-date=2014-03-15
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The term is now widely used in comic and popular discourse across the political spectrum. [[Rush Limbaugh]] picked up the usage soon after the ''SNL'' airing. A trial exhibit from the [[United States v. Libby|2007 "Scooter" Libby trial]] included the term, in Libby's daily schedule for June 10, 2003, which showed that Libby had a 6:00 pm "Strategery Meeting" scheduled to last 90 minutes.<ref>[http://wid.ap.org/documents/libbytrial/feb5/DX1030.pdf Defense Exhibit DX1030 - Scooter Libby's Schedule, June 10, 2003]</ref> In a 2017 interview on ''[[Jimmy Kimmel Live!]]'', Bush recalled a joke argument with ''SNL''<nowiki/>'s [[Lorne Michaels]] about whether an ''SNL'' writer or Bush himself had actually coined the term.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Naylor|first1=Brian|title=Former President Bush Says SNL Impressions Never Bothered Him A Bit|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/03/03/518329705/former-president-bush-says-snl-impressions-never-bothered-him-a-bit|publisher=NPR|date=March 3, 2017}}</ref>