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...they may never have heard. It won't be Ken Starr, the independent counsel who brought the Monica Lewinsky affair to the House of Representatives. Or Henry Hyde, the silver-haired chairman of the House committee where articles of impeachment originate. Or even Bob Livingston, who will soon replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker. Instead the author of Bill Clinton's most historic defeat, if it happens, will be Tom DeLay, a flinty former pest exterminator from Sugar Land, Texas, with a tense smile and a talent for making offers his fellow Republican lawmakers can't refuse...
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy's piece on the "Fall of the House of Newt" was excellent. However, I have difficulty with a simplistic assertion early in the article: "Clinton has an affair with an intern, and Gingrich loses his job over it." Gingrich's position as a politician should not be judged against Clinton's private activities. Gingrich and the Republicans approached the midterm elections with the complete deck of cards up their sleeve. The public betrayal by Democrats of Clinton to protect their own political careers provided the Republicans with invaluable free negative advertising. Throughout the campaign...
When I heard that Newt Gingrich was stepping down as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, I recalled your article [NATION, Oct. 12] "On the Fast Track to Impeach," in which you wrote, "It takes a deft touch to set the right trap; but if you do, the other one will stumble right into it." I believe Gingrich set the right trap, but he himself stumbled right into it! KHASHAYAR RIAZY Tehran...
Author Stephen Covey, cited in Andrew Ferguson's "Goodbye, Brave Newtworld" [ESSAY, Nov. 16], is on to us. Management consultants will suffer from the Gingrich fallout now that Newt's "thinking" has been compared with the "banalities...broken down and presented as 'steps' and 'affirmations'" in Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. For years, management mavens have been getting away with best sellers, that, like most of us passing through airport customs, have nothing to declare. Fortunately for the authors, few of their readers have ever read my 1984 article in International Management, "Sifting the Nonsense...
...Gingrich era may be over, but there will always be a market for bromides, like Covey's counsel to "seek first to understand." Newt is undoubtedly trying to do just that. FRANK O'MEARA Behoust, France...