If we were in a meeting on a crisis, no one would turn to Chris and say, 'You put together the strategy memo.'

The strategy memo, leaked to the Guardian, also proposed a debate on a reduction in the long summer holiday to help working families - "if we're feeling brave", it said.

He resigned from the position in May of that year following a controversy involving a strategy memo he had written based on the Terri Schiavo case.

Seldom one to mince words, Mr. Murray opened his strategy memo by saying, "This deal blows an enormous hole in the Government's case."

The briefing papers were never specified to be vital strategy memos or just routine position papers.

Poll-driven strategy memos like this are not unusual these days in the increasingly campaign-like struggles over major legislation.

In July he revised and expanded this strategy memo into an overall strategy plan for the fall campaign that Ford later approved.

In the first of what would become legendary strategy memos circulated among Republican policymakers, Kristol said the party should "kill", not amend, President Clinton's health care plan.

Democrats were tipped off to the possible break-in when their strategy memos began appearing in conservative media, starting with The Wall Street Journal's editorial page.

On February 20, 2012, Gleick said he was mailed the disputed strategy memo from an anonymous source.