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Even before these contretemps, Dole had doubts about Engler's judgment after the Governor helped talk Speaker Newt Gingrich into a government shutdown during the budget talks, a move from which the party has yet to recover. Outgoing, Catholic and an excellent campaigner, Engler avoided the draft because he was categorized I-Y for being 2 lbs. overweight in one exam and 10 lbs. in another. Even so, Michigan remains so vital to Dole that he recently auditioned Engler; the Senator and the Governor made joint TV appearances, conveyed by satellite so that Dole could rate Engler's performance...
Elizabeth Dole is joined in her push by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, who would like the candidate to name someone shrewd, trusted and sporting enough to try to coordinate Dole's decisions as majority leader with the demands of a tough campaign against Bill Clinton. Party leaders suggest that only a few Republicans have the stature to go toe to toe with Dole: former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and former Reagan chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. But there are two problems: Dole has always jealously guarded that...
...voter discontent in a presidential-election year, made a response that was uncharacteristically swift and characteristically disproportionate. Senator Bob Dole, first off the mark, proposed in a letter to President Clinton that the 1993 federal gasoline-tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. be repealed, an action that Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested Congress could accomplish by Memorial Day. Pointedly noting that there had been no Republican support for that 1993 tax increase, Dole declared on the Senate floor, "We believe, with the skyrocketing prices of gasoline, jet fuel and other fuels, that the most certain way to give consumers relief...
...Turnley for his photographs of Bosnian refugees. Capa, himself a great war photographer, once said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." He would have appreciated not only Suau and Turnley's you-are-there photos but also the very up-close shots of Newt Gingrich that won Bentley a POY first place in the news-picture-story category. For months Bentley, who these days gives TIME readers close proximity to Bob Dole, had unparalleled access to the House Speaker. "We're honored to be working with the best magazine photojournalists in the business," says...
...Newt Gingrich a punk-rock fan, particularly of Theme Song, a tune by the band Too Much Joy? As the story goes, Gingrich heard the single played among G.O.P. staff members, then last month allegedly sent fan letters to the irreverent musicians (once tried and acquitted of obscenity charges), raving that they "had captured the entire essence of our 1994 campaign in a single line: 'To create, you must destroy.'" The band's promoters used the letters to help publicize its new album. Last week Gingrich's office claimed the letters were a hoax, despite being on the Speaker...