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Thus emerged the bills that Dole strategists would rather keep bottled up. "I've had it with the Dole campaign," Newt Gingrich groused to a colleague. Gingrich will focus instead on re-electing his majority, staging eight seminars on how lawmakers should market their agenda. (Example: Don't say "cut" Medicare, say "preserve and protect.") A Gingrich spokesman denies that the Speaker and Dole have gone separate ways. But John Boehner, the fourth-ranking House Republican, says, "There's been a realization on Newt's part that the Dole campaign is going to manage itself...
WASHINGTON, D.C: As the Terrorism Bill languished unsigned, late on Thursday night House Speaker Newt Gingrich led his Republican cohorts through six hours of fiery partisan debate concerning a matter the Speaker views as an urgent remedy to avoid "the decay of core parts of our civilization." Inspired, the House passed H.R. 123, which makes English the official language of the United States. The legislation requires most documents to be printed in English, eliminates tax return instructions and ballots written in Spanish or other languages, as well as citizenship ceremonies conducted in foreign languages. Averting the need for a major...
...spread just hours before the speech, the Republican Party began, as one Dole aide put it, "to flip out." G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour thought Dole would be foolish to offend loyal gun owners (and big-time contributors) in order to court a larger audience. And when House Speaker Newt Gingrich got wind of Dole's plan just after breakfast, he was furious. Dole had once promised Gingrich to repeal the ban, and now here he was, promising to uphold it. Gingrich telephoned the campaign and demanded that Dole remove the offending sentence...
...then, Dole--and the speech--had left for the airport, and campaign manager Scott Reed had to play catch-up. He reached Dole by telephone and relayed Gingrich's gripes. As usual, Dole would make the final call. As usual, there was no one on the plane with the stature to persuade him to stick to the script, or to suggest that maybe the needs of Gingrich and Barbour no longer match those of the nominee. And though he faced what should have been a simple choice between listening to his gut or listening to a Speaker with an approval...
MICHAEL DUFFY scores a small coup this week with a behind-the-scenes story from the presidential campaign. He describes how Bob Dole, pressured by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, missed a crucial opportunity to blunt one of the Democrats' favorite wedge issues, gun control, first dropping his plan to promise a repeal of the unpopular assault-weapons ban, then changing his mind again, but too late to reap the political reward. "I wanted to autopsy one moment in a very difficult time for Dole," says Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "You get the feeling he believes this campaign doesn...