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...knowledge of what not to fear," she said in an interview at her sparsely furnished downtown Washington office. At Gingrich's Progress and Freedom Foundation, Huffington, in her designer suits and coppery mane, is taken very seriously. "The thing some people miss about Arianna is her intellect," says Jeffrey Eisenach, president of the foundation. But, he says, she is no dilettante, even though some people may be led to think so because of her ties to New York society and her wealth (husband Michael is reportedly worth at least $75 million, his share of the $600 million Huffco oil fortune...
...Eisenach describes himself as Gingrich's ``intellectual sidekick,'' but he insists the foundation is wholly independent of Gingrich as well as organizations like GOPAC. That defense is less than satisfying to critics. Before founding Progress and Freedom, Eisenach was executive director of GOPAC. His think tank, furthermore, is steward to ``Renewing American Civilization,'' the 20-hour college course that Gingrich teaches. Eisenach, however, denies that he remains beholden to partisan zealots at GOPAC. ``The clique that feeds at the trough of Republican politics is not my crowd,'' he told . ``I survived at GOPAC by telling them I'd leave them...
...defuse criticism of the foundation, Eisenach has released a list of donors. Apart from Johnson & Johnson, Health South and Solvay, it includes such pharmaceutical companies as Searle, Glaxo, Genzyme and Burroughs Wellcome, as well as AT&T, Turner Broadcasting and Lockheed. All are under federal regulation or have contracts with the government--and are thus barred from contributing directly to political campaigns. The foundation has not indicated the amounts each corporation has contributed. The foundation, which is tax exempt, officially nonpartisan and not subject to federal election laws, can receive unlimited amounts of money from donors and is not bound...
...Eisenach, 36, does not disavow spiritual ties to the Gingrich crusade. He considers himself the curator of Gingrich's ideas. He agrees with the Speaker that no idea has played a more central role in American civilization than progress. It was a combination of patriotism and technological innovation that was instilled in Eisenach as a child. In the first grade, he and his classmates in Mrs. Bumstead's class in Dayton, Ohio, would regularly hear B- 52s flying overhead, heading back to nearby Wright-Patterson Air Base. Each time, the kids' response was the same. ``We would stop whatever...
...Eisenach and Gingrich met in 1988 while Eisenach was studying drug-abuse policy at the conservative Heritage Foundation. ``We found out that for 10 years we had been thinking about many of the same things,'' says Eisenach. Nowadays, he talks with Gingrich two or three times a week. One irresistible topic for them must be the growing scrutiny of their relationship...