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...effort to save Newt reached a peak last week with the release of a letter signed by Representatives Porter Goss of Florida and Steve Schiff of New Mexico, the two Republicans on the four-member ethics subcommittee responsible for investigating Gingrich. As such they were the only Republicans with firsthand knowledge of the range of evidence against him. In their letter they announced their intention to vote for Gingrich and said they knew of "no reason now, nor do we foresee any in the normal course of events in the future, why Newt Gingrich would be ineligible to serve...
...members of the ethics committee to make such a statement while a case is still under investigation is highly unusual. Even more unusual, however, is the way the letter originated. Schiff told TIME that it was prepared in response to urgings by Representatives Bill Paxon of New York and John Linder of Georgia, respectively the outgoing and incoming chairmen of the National Republican Congressional Committee. For weeks, both men had been pressing G.O.P. House members in general to get behind Gingrich, advice that would be taken seriously by anybody expecting to need campaign funding...
...would probably knock it down and put another up,” says board member Stephen Schiff. “We’ve outlived the usefulness of the facility itself. It’s going on to 50 years...
Monday, April 18. Stacy Schiff discusses “Improvisation: Franklin France and the Birth of America,” 6:30 p.m. The Harvard Book Store...
...Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking...