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...under them. Clinton's handling of the first major surprise to be sprung by soon-to- be House Speaker Newt Gingrich was anything but surefooted. Right after the election, Gingrich declared that in the next session of Congress, House Republicans plan to introduce a constitutional amendment to permit school prayer, an item that didn't appear in the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America." When reporters asked Clinton about it in Jakarta, where he was attending the summit of Asian Pacific leaders, he replied with a small surprise of his own. "I certainly wouldn't rule it out," he offered...
...placating instincts got him in trouble. By first appearing to endorse Gingrich's proposal, Clinton opened himself to attack from liberals who oppose school prayer. White House aides spent the next day backtracking, explaining that what the President had in mind was not a constitutional amendment but a legislative act to permit a moment of silence in classrooms like the one he had signed as Governor of Arkansas in 1985. While that could be acceptable to many Democrats as well as Republicans, the way the White House handled it reinforced Clinton's image as the Great Vacillator...
Although Clinton seemed completely unprepared for the first rhetorical challenge from the emboldened G.O.P., for Gingrich to start off with the school-prayer amendment made political sense. It probably seemed like the perfect thank-you gift to the Christian right for its substantial role in the Republican triumph. Even though leaders of the Christian right say it's not high on their legislative wish list, polls show strong support for some kind of classroom prayer, making it less contentious than an antiabortion measure they might prefer. Best of all, Gingrich could offer the amendment without fully expecting it to come...
Stockman was a pro-gun, pro-school prayer sometime house painter and occasional accountant. The most effective element of his platform was simply not being 21-term Congressman Jack Brooks, who, if he had been re-elected, would have been the most senior member of the House. Being a Congressman will be Stockman's first steady job. Bill Frist, a heart-and-lung surgeon from Nashville, Tennessee, knocked off 18-year Senate veteran Jim Sasser by campaigning against the things Sasser was for: gun control, abortion rights and Washington pols telling people not to smoke in Old Smoky country...
...latest verse of the Clinton Administration's shiftingschool prayer stance, Vice President Al Gore today came out against it. "I oppose any proposal and the President opposes any proposal to have government employees taking over the responsibility of teaching our children how to worship God, or what tradition in which to worship God or how to pray," Gore told the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations. "That is the job that must be handled by families, parents, churches, synagogues" and other religious organizations, Gore said as the audience applauded. Gore's statements fly in the face of Clinton...