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...Government won?t break the back of Joe Camel -- not while Newt Gingrich warms the Speaker?s seat, anyway. And that?s good news for the White House, says TIME correspondent Jay Branegan. ?A few weeks ago, Gingrich was vowing to fight hard against Big Tobacco; now he?s back on their side,? says Branegan. ?The White House see this flip-flop as evidence that the Republicans are in the pocket of Big Tobacco, and they?re really pleased...
...Gingrich last night flew to Joe?s defense at a GOP fund-raiser, saying movies rather than advertising promoted teenage smoking. He also lambasted the President for smoking cigars to celebrate victories. ?If the Republicans want to claim that advertising has no influence on youth smoking, that?s a battle the White House would love to fight,? says Branegan. Indeed, the news might have even tempted the President to light up a stogie...
There is an agenda, but probably not the one the man suspected. As Gingrich crisscrosses the country selling Lessons Learned the Hard Way, a contrite new book about his tumultuous first three years as Speaker of the House, he is telling audiences and readers alike that he has metamorphosed from the tantrum-prone revolutionary of 1995 into a sober leader who has finally figured out how to run Congress. And by dropping into bookstores in New Hampshire last week and Iowa this week (both early-primary states), he is hinting strongly at a run for the White House. But what...
Last fall, the accepted wisdom among House Republicans was that Gingrich planned to give up the speakership next year to launch a long-shot campaign for President. He had said as much himself, sotto voce. And though few of his colleagues believed that the man with the lowest approval rating of any national politician in the U.S. could win the nomination, they assured themselves that the Speaker's real goal was to exit gracefully from the House, a place he was no longer wanted. Newt's plans were so well known that Dick Armey, the majority leader, and Bob Livingston...
...foregone conclusion," a senior Republican says of Newt's departure. "Now I'm not so sure." Neither is Gingrich. Much like Clinton, he is beginning to worry about his legacy. Sources close to Gingrich say he hates the idea that he might be remembered as the disgraced Speaker who quit to run a losing presidential campaign. Or one who was distracted by personal ambition just as the Republicans' slim House majority went on the line in this November's election. He would much rather be recalled as the "transformational leader" (his words) who ushered in that majority for a generation...