Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bring on Newt!" shouted a supporter...
WASHINGTON: It's a prediction Newt Gingrich will be a while living down: a GOP pickup of 40 seats in the House. But months later on Election Day, far from adding to their majority, Republicans were just hoping to hang onto it. Between Wednesday morning and January, the GOP rank-and-file members -- at least those that aren't packing their bags -- are going to be looking around for an explanation...
...They'll have to ask themselves whether the leadership was stupid or the public was," says TIME Washington correspondent James Branegan. Did Newt, late in the budget battle, give up too much to the White House? Or is the public's tolerance of Bill Clinton something Republicans never really grasped? "The GOP shouldn't have messed with the Clintons this close to the election," says Branegan. And that was something Newt, for all his October missteps, very pointedly didn't do. Maybe it's not his fault after...
Tenet, however, is close to Clinton, who likes his low-key but blunt style. The Director has also courted Congress enough for Newt Gingrich to push through a $1.8 billion increase in the intelligence budget this year, bringing it to $29 billion. Tenet avoids the media and refuses to talk about his Middle East foray. But in an exclusive interview with TIME after the Wye marathon, he maintained that the CIA "can have an enormous impact on the future, but the fact is that we have to become a more agile institution...
...described how House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton, engaged in an ongoing vendetta, have been aching to set traps for each other to stumble into [NATION, Oct. 12]. I believe Clinton has inadvertently set a beauty. The impeachment process will proceed, and the Republicans, blinded by their vitriol against Clinton, will gallop full tilt into an election in which the majority of the electorate are disgusted with their witch hunt. From my perspective, north of the border, I'm betting the Democrats will score a big win in the November midterm elections--a form of self-impeachment...