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...side. As chairman, he said, "you're dealing with a bunch of little rug rats whining about what they want and what they didn't get." Ceding power is "like getting out of the day-care business. All of a sudden, it looks like a good deal." So is Newt Gingrich nanny to the nation? He will certainly get to conciliate and cajole, to deal and dole out, to demand and deliver -- with all the clout of a victorious revolutionary, with all the prestige of a virtual President...
...political arrangement, one that Republicans could dominate for years to come. It was that prospect, the blood-tingling thought that they might be witnessing the start of a G.O.P. millennium, that brought a real fervor to the Republican side of the House on their marathon opening day. "Newt, Newt, Newt!" they chanted. "It's a whole Newt world...
...family incidents contributed a certain spontaneity to the new Speaker's week. He blew up over the TV interview in which Connie Chung elicited from his mother the whispered confession that Gingrich had called the First Lady "a bitch." "Connie Chung should apologize," Newt said. And then, at Newt's moment of triumph, Bob Gingrich, his father, chose not to join in a standing ovation. Newt has admitted that his relationship with his adoptive father has always been distant. Newt had called Bob a few weeks earlier to break the ice. "I want to thank you for being an influence...
Before Gingrich's ascendance, Robert Dole was the G.O.P.'s equivalent of a shadow President. At Newt's inaugural last week, the Senator from Kansas watched from the sidelines. He quickly exited after the festivities were over. Asked by TIME for his view of the events, he simply said, "I'd better get back to work." In the Senate the newly installed majority leader gave a speech more characteristic of Gingrich than the one the Speaker actually delivered, promising "to cut federal programs from A to Z, from Amtrak to zoological studies...
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