Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NEWT GINGRICH RETURNED FROM HIS Thanksgiving break not refreshed but chastened. Over the holiday, he had worried aloud with his wife and grown children about what he had done to himself and the Republicans. His plan to balance the budget was a month behind schedule. He had thrown a childish fit about his treatment aboard Air Force One, then connected a grisly triple murder in suburban Chicago to "the welfare state." His popularity had been dropping, taking his party's down with it. On Monday he announced he would not run for President...
...lieutenants had delivered the news: unless he lowered his profile, the balanced budget would be defeated, and more voters would grow disenchanted. "All the members [had gone] home," says a House Republican leader, "and heard the same thing: 'Keep it up, don't back down and tell Newt to shut up.'" So, on Wednesday, Gingrich went before a closed session of the House Republicans and said he had "thrown one too many interceptions" and that he intended to "sit on the bench for a while...
...charges, especially when it came to Gingrich. In its most damaging new allegation, the FEC claims that GOPAC helped Gingrich win his narrow 1990 victory by paying the salaries of consultants like committee staff director Jeffrey Eisenach, who spent as much as two-thirds of his time on "Newt support" projects. The FEC's filing also raises questions about whether Gingrich went to bat for GOPAC benefactors--potentially explosive suggestions of quid pro quos that Democrats have vowed to make the basis of a new complaint against the Speaker before the House Ethics panel. In any case, the judge...
WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH NEWT? WHAT ABOUT BREAKFAST WITH the future Republican nominee for President? Or drinks on a yacht with California Governor Pete Wilson and other G.O.P. Governors? All this access to powerful people is for sale, and can be yours, for a mere $250,000. Make checks payable to the Republican National Committee...
...scheduled two "phone days" in the tony Hay-Adams Hotel across from the White House. Of this offer and others in the Barbour letter, R.N.C. spokeswoman Mary Crawford says, "That's just sort of the way it's done." That may be exactly why the Republicans of Newt's revolution are unlikely soon to rewrite the laws governing checkbook politics...