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...there were many lawmakers who thought Gingrich was too flighty and volatile to be treated like a grownup. Paul Weyrich still sounds exasperated when he recalls Gingrich's early days: "The man had no organization; he was helter-skelter. Undisciplined. Unfocused, interesting, but not destined to accomplish much." Even as he was learning to be statesmanlike, to buckle down and count votes and hold his tongue when the circumstances required, he was working hard to recruit and train the G.O.P. troops who would eventually become his Republican Guard...
...bothering to help its farm team. Gingrich was taking note of the aspirants too--often when no one else would. "When you are a candidate and you are out there struggling along in a difficult district, generally speaking, the party apparatus will not pay much attention to you," Weyrich says. "They only pay attention to the favored candidates who have a good chance...
Gingrich refused to get used to it, and instead spent 10 full years methodically recruiting and training his own private army. "He was willing to go in and help these candidates that other people wouldn't touch," says conservative guru Paul Weyrich. "When they came here, who was it that they knew? Gingrich was their leader." Once he became Speaker, they supported all the House restructuring he proposed, not least because it gave them a more central role than any generation of congressional arrivistes in modern history...
...meantime, Powell has driven a wedge into the middle of the Republican Party's right wing. Such conservatives as Paul Weyrich and Gary Bauer view Powell as a liberal and media darling who will use the nomination to halt the Gingrich revolution. But after Weyrich labeled Powell "our enemy" in a letter to moral-values maven Bill Bennett, he countered with a five-page letter portraying Powell as a lesser evil, on the grounds that pro-life conservatives would have a better chance to reduce abortions under Powell than under Clinton. Early in October, Bennett sent Powell articles...
...Finance Committee when he hired Burke as a health-care-policy specialist, and nine years later he made her chief of staff. Earlier this year, after he offered her the prestigious but largely symbolic job of secretary of the Senate, her critics thought Burke had been, in Weyrich's words...