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...MORNING OF NOV. 1, AND "NEWTSIE," as Dole affectionately refers to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has thrown a fit. Gingrich and Dole are only hours away from their first serious sit-down with Bill Clinton to discuss the Republican budget. But Gingrich is threatening to scrap the long-awaited session. The morning's New York Times has quoted White House spokesman Mike McCurry describing the planned session as an "encouraging" concession on the part of the Republican leadership. "That's enough," Gingrich cries. "I'm not going down there [to the White House...
Apprised of Gingrich's pique, Dole takes the Speaker aside for a huddle in the Senate cloakroom. "It didn't take much more than a pat on the head and a few words assuring Newt that he's still in charge," says a congressional aide privy to the conversation--although the soothed Newt is reported to have exploded again at the start of the White House meeting when he said, "You've got a chicken-shit operation here, Mr. President...
...Yeah," says Gingrich, "I didn't want to go to the thing. Left alone, I wouldn't have gone. I yielded to Bob's judgment because I concede that in certain circumstances my judgment is not as mature as his and that I am often likely to make the mistake of being too aggressive. I'm capable of taking risks that are ultimately destructive. So I've come to the point where I will almost always defer to Dole's judgment about decisions that involve certain kinds of tactical risks. I now know that I can be very risk-taking...
...Dole's campaign staff, which scoffs at the possibility that Gingrich might challenge Dole for the G.O.P. nomination, the incident confirms that they've won the "Newt primary," the battle they describe as the first crucial test for Dole on the road to the White House. "We've operated all along on the premise that we needed to win over Newt before we could have a real shot,'' says a Dole aide. "If Newt put out the word that Dole wasn't on board with the Contract with America, we could have packed our bags and gone home. Their work...
...MODern American politics was made, in the final days, not once and for all but over and over again. On Thursday night Colin Powell was poised to run. All the stars were aligned, the polls plump with support, the money hovering, ready to land. And then there came Newt Gingrich, who slipped away from his handlers and arrived in secret on Powell's doorstep, bearing the flame of the conservative revolution and telling him, in effect...