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...from the Contract with America and to allow surrogates to bash the G.O.P. But in a conversation in early April, the Connecticut-based Morris advised Clinton to follow his inclination by taking the issues head on and explaining what he would do differently. The result: the day House Speaker Gingrich was to give a presumptively presidential address on national television, the President scrapped plans to deliver a speech on education and delivered a Morris-inspired rundown of what he liked and disliked about the contract. While the President has solicited advice from a variety of outside consultants, says White House...
...Republican consultant--his most prominent recent client is Senator Trent Lott from Mississippi, a Gingrich ally--is likely to have an even greater impact in the months to come. Last Friday Clinton officially formed his re-election committee, but there is still no one to run it. The President is said to be pressuring Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to take the chairman's job, though Kantor denies it. To shore up his perpetually battered political operation, Clinton is considering hiring Ed Reilly, a New York pollster, for a top White House communications job, and Marla Romash, a former Gore aide...
...long can environmentalism survive the heisse luft from industry lobbyists? Theresa Woody, a Miami-based representative of the Sierra Club, thinks that the movement isn't dying, just lazy; people thought environmental laws were established and permanent, and they weren't paying attention. She guesses Newt Gingrich will turn out to be the best membership raiser the green brigade has had since James Watt's alarming career as Interior Secretary. These days, she says, people like to see wading herons, but they really care about clean water in the aquifer when they understand that their own bodies need it every...
...could only find Gingrich's credit cardnumber...
Hours before the Oklahoma City bombing dwarfed partisan politics, President Clinton launched an attack on the GOP, insisting he would not be "blackmailed" by House Speaker Newt Gingrich's threat to attach GOP bills to budgetary measures that Clinton would have difficulty vetoing. "A strategy to sort of put me in a box would be an error because I will still exercise the power of the presidency in the interest of the American people," Clinton said at an Oval Office photo-op, reprising his Wednesday press conference theme that the president is "relevant." If Gingrich tied controversial "Contract With America...