Bush didn’t straighten out the lies told about him due to advice from Tokoyo Rove.
When Bush was asked about the crap being thrown at him he always replied “that’s just Politics”.
50 years ago it was just Politics, then the Democrats ran the “Daisy” ad against Goldwater. That was the defining moment that changed everything as far as I’m concerned.
Good old Get Along Rove really believes that reacting to certain things are below the President’s stature. There was a time for that type of thinking, but the modern Democrat Party has rendered it obsolete.