Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the Dole campaign," Newt Gingrich groused to a colleague. Gingrich will focus instead on re-electing his majority, staging eight seminars on how lawmakers should market their agenda. (Example: Don't say "cut" Medicare, say "preserve and protect.") A Gingrich spokesman denies that the Speaker and Dole have gone separate ways. But John Boehner, the fourth-ranking House Republican, says, "There's been a realization on Newt's part that the Dole campaign is going to manage itself...
...says TIME's James Carney. "He needs all three of these elements to be successful to make the public focus on him again, and look beyond what they know about him, which is that he is old, and has been in Washington forever, and he is not a good speaker. Unless he completely flubs it, Dole will find a space in the public eye he didn't have before. The convention could be the boost he needs to counter so many observers deeming his campaign a disaster so far." -->