Word: speaker
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...speaker at the meeting had come from Acton to describe that town's difficulties with the W.R. Grace company's developments...
...plan spread just hours before the speech, the Republican Party began, as one Dole aide put it, "to flip out." G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour thought Dole would be foolish to offend loyal gun owners (and big-time contributors) in order to court a larger audience. And when House Speaker Newt Gingrich got wind of Dole's plan just after breakfast, he was furious. Dole had once promised Gingrich to repeal the ban, and now here he was, promising to uphold it. Gingrich telephoned the campaign and demanded that Dole remove the offending sentence...
...with the stature to persuade him to stick to the script, or to suggest that maybe the needs of Gingrich and Barbour no longer match those of the nominee. And though he faced what should have been a simple choice between listening to his gut or listening to a Speaker with an approval rating in the low 30s, Dole did the latter. He deleted his own idea...
MICHAEL DUFFY scores a small coup this week with a behind-the-scenes story from the presidential campaign. He describes how Bob Dole, pressured by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, missed a crucial opportunity to blunt one of the Democrats' favorite wedge issues, gun control, first dropping his plan to promise a repeal of the unpopular assault-weapons ban, then changing his mind again, but too late to reap the political reward. "I wanted to autopsy one moment in a very difficult time for Dole," says Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "You get the feeling he believes this campaign doesn...
...Birnbaum notes that while Dole might have upset Reed, the Christian Coalition is not threatening a walkout: "Most would still vote for Dole because the alternative, to them, is even worse." Dole began his appeal to moderates last week, first by selecting pro-choice Representative Susan Molinari as keynote speaker and then persuading retired (and pro-choice) General Colin Powell to address the convention on opening night. -- Lamia Abu-Haidar