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...real sign from the right came that night after dinner. Newt Gingrich told his staff he was attending a function in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Afterward he slipped onto the Beltway to McLean, where he arrived at Powell's front door sometime after eight. If Powell wanted some protection on his right flank, Gingrich would be essential. For weeks the Speaker had made positive if guarded comments about the general. But he had not done anything to actively push him into the race...
...when Newt and Dole met the next day, Newt picked up the phone and dialed the general, then put Dole on the line. "I talked to him briefly," Dole told Time. "I told him I hope he thought I conducted myself properly. I never said anything but good things." Powell, Dole says, replied, "No, you've been a prince." The Powell folks on the other end remember things a little differently; and the word prince, they say, was never used. But both sides agree on one thing: the vice presidency never came...
...reclaimed mostly by Robert Dole. Powell Democrats drift back to Bill Clinton. But having been beguiled by the dream of a third way, voters won't go happily, and quite a few will be ready to run off again with any newcomer who talks their language. Take your pick. Newt Gingrich, Jesse Jackson, Ross Perot or one of his surrogates. Some late bloomer in the New Hampshire primary field. It will be a while before the restless American electorate has sorted out its discontents and settled on its candidates...
...held ground in places they had lost badly in recent years. In Kentucky, where Clinton bashing was a foolproof formula in the '94 congressional races, it didn't work for G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate Larry Forgy. The winner was Democratic Lieutenant Governor Paul Patton, who turned the tables and made Newt Gingrich the boogeyman in his campaign. In Virginia, Republicans were stopped just short of gaining control of the state legislature for the first time ever...
...occupy the ground between them. But that approach has so alienated members of his party on Capitol Hill that Clinton and his aides have come to realize that without an immediate show of resolve, he may have no allies when it comes time to cut a budget deal with Newt Gingrich. At a pep rally attended by scores of congressional Democrats, Panetta vowed that "for this President, no deal is better than a bad deal." But listeners like Representative Jim McDermott of Washington State were far from persuaded. "There weren't three people in there who believed it," says McDermott...