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...NEWT GINGRICH USED TO DREAM last spring about the day when he would get to sit down and play a kind of Russian roulette with the President. The stakes would be very high. The whole government would be held hostage while the country waited to see who would blink. The House Speaker would confront Bill Clinton with a choice: Sign a historic balanced-budget plan on Republican terms or watch the government shut down. ''Which of the two of us do you think cares more about the government not showing up?" Gingrich asked...
Last Thursday night, exactly one year since his triumphant ascent to the Speaker's chair, Gingrich stood before his troops at a private session in the Cannon caucus room. He had told them then that there would come a dark hour, when the fight would grow hard, the polls pitiless, the prospects bleak. And he had promised he would be right at their side, that once they had won the war, all the pain would be forgotten...
...budget deadlock being what it is, perhaps a good brawl would be a more appropriate vehicle to settle the dispute than endless negotiations over Medicare minutiae. I could see it now. Clinton is bigger, but Gingrich is quicker on his feet. You call Don King. I'll rent the steel cage...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Calmly confirming that legal bills have nearly bankrupted him, defending the honesty of his wife, and stubbornly insisting that no matter what Newt Gingrich says, a balanced budget agreement could very easily be reached "in fifteen minutes," a feisty President Clinton faced reporters Thursday in his first full-length press conference since last August. It was a masterly performance by a president who, by any measure, is facing extraordinary personal, political and financial difficulties just as the presidential election season gets underway. As he has in past crises, Clinton rose to the beleagured occasion with an easy blend...
Moments after President Clinton concluded his press conference, House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave one of his own in Seattle, calling the President's remarks "a political game." Gingrich swatted away Clinton's claims about how close the two sides had come to a budget truce, jotting down the key numbers in the budget negotiations on a huge tablet as the cameras rolled. Having sent financial markets reeling the day before with his tough prognosis for budget peace, Gingrich remained grim, calling Clinton's comments "very, very disappointing." But Gingrich sidestepped Clinton's central point, notes TIME's Michael Duffy...