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NASHUA, N.H. As the news of John Sununu's fall blared from the television set last Tuesday, a smile of sweet revenge crossed Hugh Gregg's face, and his hand, which had turned purple from strangling a golf putter in anticipation of the announcement, finally relaxed. "A great day," said Gregg, who has guided George Bush through the bruising world of New Hampshire Republican politics since 1979, when the two men first toured the state in Gregg's Pontiac station wagon. "This will really help the President here...
...G.O.P., which has controlled the Granite State's politics since the beginning of time, intraparty warfare is a favorite spectator sport and the Gregg-Sununu feud is its Super Bowl. Gregg, 74, was Governor in the mid-1950s, and has been New Hampshire's leading moderate Republican ever since. Sununu's election as Governor in 1982 was a triumph for the party's conservative wing. Gregg's son Judd, 44, is the current Governor. Judd succeeded Sununu and is more conservative than his father, but the old rivalry endures. Thus the simple matter of how to respond to Sununu...
Loeb's assessment goes to the core of Bush's political problem, and Hugh Gregg, respected across ideological lines as a straight shooter, frankly agrees with some of the Union Leader's criticism. "We're hurting real bad," says Gregg, "and I don't think the President has any concept of what's going on up here...
...unsophisticated," says Gregg. "We overbuilt and overcommitted, and it's mostly our own fault. But it's rational for people to feel that the President isn't doing enough to help. We can't wait for the January State of the Union address to learn what the Administration's new economic-stimulus plan is; and I can't understand why we have...
...after two disappointing seasons, the Royals made a move, sending Saberhagen and Bill Pecota to the Mets for Kevin McReynolds, Gregg Jefferies and Keith Miller...