This document is from the collections at the Dole Archives, University of Kansas. 171 http://dolearchives.ku.edu ' '\ ; ... .:. R9he~ pQised 'to :heeome ere~. ' · of .the... crop on .ag co~ttee ' . ,. ' . ., See ROBERTS Pag!" 3 . ------ -- >8 ;;i GOP leadership may .clash·• GOE~----- Continued from Page 1 Already waiting,at, the terminal at keePing common •voice T~ursday to celebrate what ~ i T­ shirt proclaimed .. as "Bob I>Oje's By SARA FRITZ against the Clinton administration. National· .Victory Tour" wer~ ;Sen. Los Angeles Times After four decades in the minority, Gingrich's House · Nancy Kassebaum and Third Dis­ Repli.blicans are ~erta~ ..to be pliant and ready to follow trict CoJ1kresswoman Jan Meyers. ASHINGTON - While Tuesday's election re- the dictates of the speaker. Gingrich has already made All the Kansas GO~ gonna-bes suits decreed that the House and Senate will it clear to his caucus that he expects every member to were there, too: Gov. Bill Graves . W be controlled by the Republican party next read from the script t,hat he will draft· for them. Lt. Gov. Sheila Frahm, Attorney year, there is still no guarantee the leadership of the Dole's Senate Republicans, on the other hand, ·are · 'Genera1·Ca!.'la Stovall, Secretary of 104th Congress will speak with a single voice. harder to command. The variety of strong personalities State Ron Thornburgh, and Con­ Indeed, the new governing majority on Capitol Hill is includes such relics of a bygone era as Sen. Strom gressmen Todd Tiahrt and Sam every bit as diverse and unpredic~ble as the Democrat- Thurmond, R-S.C., who Is soon to be 92; such courtly, 1 ~ro.~.nbl\ck. _{Brown back was we~r­ -The Associated Preas ic regime it will supplant. And nowhere is that as that well-bred He­ mg co\\l}joy boots and•a. business President. Clinton accepted a diversity so obvious as in the personalities of the two publicans as Sen. suit, apparently adopting the ·,"share of the responsibility" men who will lead the new majority: Newt Gingrich, the John Chaffee, trademark of Jim Slattery, the Wednesday for the debacle. future House R-R.I., and a .Dempcrat h!! will succeed in Con­ Speaker, and growing cadre of gress.) .. Bob Dole, the former House . Mome~~s after Dole swept into likely Senate members who · the termmal, expectant ' news re­ Chastened majority leader. have been influ­ . porters .were ruiked·. to leave a glass­ Gingtich, 51, enced by Gin­ walled conference room where the the conservative grlch's desire for Republican leaders surrounded two Clinton calls firebrand who confrontation, collapsible banquet tables that had has b.ee~ cred- .1¢.by &ep, 'l)'ent ·. been pushed t~gether lengthwise. !ted as ti{e rmas- Lott, 'ft:Miss: .... They sat and sipped coffee or or­ termind of the While ange juice from ,plastic cups and for meeting munched doughnuts and congratu­ ..,~ : .:: J, GOP's monu- still must ..... 1 mental election the older, lated one another. " Gloatmeal" victory in Con- traditional would : have been the appropriate ~t 'center' gress, is the publicans in breakfast food. · quintessentia.J caucus, he also Dole sat in the center directly 6y DOUGLAS JEHL "New Republi- must pJaca~e thi; across the table· from Graves, Kas­ 1,~ e New York Times can." As ·a 'long- yolillger · co~aer ~ . sebaum to his left and Tiahrt to his . wASHINGTON - Even as time back vatl.ves to stave right. Graves had Frahm at his :. President Clinton reached bencher and a off a possible righ~. }!nd Brown~ack to his left. .:. out a hand to victorious member of a challenge by · ~A nil -so on aroturd· the· table with Rep. Newt Gingrich places also for the Republican R~publicans Wednesday, the White largely power- Lott for the rna­ Conservative firebrand House was casting about for ways to less minority, he jority leader-'s losers, Insurance _ Commissioner ·g ern that wouldn't require con­ has built bls ca- job. - - Ron Todd and treasurer candidate Randy Duncan: Also· at the· iable gr:essional cooperation. Pragmatic statesman reer on ideolo~l· II\ addiUon, there is the matter of Dole's presidential • Looking somewhat chastened and cal bomblht - iunbiiions> · . were .state .Senate President .Bud sounding :conciliatory at a White savagely attack- While Gingrich has finally achieved the job to which Burke and the ·state's two GOP Hbuse news conference, President ing opponents and challenging the staid, time-ho.no.red he has lon_g aspired; the sjleakerilhip, Dole's aides say he national committee members Jack Clinton accepted his share of respon­ traditions of Congress. • has never gotten over the diSappointment of losing the Ra!lson ~f Wichita and Mary' Alice La1r'of P1qua. sibility for the devastating defeats Dole is the product of another era. GOP presidenqal nomination to George Bush in 1988. suffered by Democrats in Congress, A disabled World War II veteran, Dole, 71, has previ- If Dole decides to seek the 1996 Republican presiden- First District Congressman Pat and he said he would try to seek ously served as a leader and master legislator, both in tial nomination, as expected, it will instantly put him at Roberts was the only one. absent. common ground with Republicans on the majority and th,e minority In the Senate, and has odds with other GOP contenders, including Sen. Phil . He was in Washington preparing to issues like welfare reform. also had the experience of running for president! I. · .· .. Gramm, .R'-Texas, a former House member with politi- b.ecome chairman of the House Ag­ riculture Committee. 'But while congratulating Sen. Bob While his dark wit makes him every bit adept at cal instinctS akin to that of Gingrich. Later, the leaders crossed the Dole of Kansas, who is almost cer­ attacking his opponents as Gingrich, Dole· nevertheless Republicans,predict such a move on Dole's part would hall to another glass-encased con­ tain to be the new majority leader, possesses a pragmatic statesmanship and takes pride in only exacerbate a Dole-Gingrich tug-of-war. ference room with a view of the al)d Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia, passing legislation. For his part, Dole is said by close associates to view the apparent next Speaker of the tar~ac and Dole's airplane. A The fault line that divides Gingrich and Dole is not Gingrich as a politician with little or no appreciation podmm with a "Graves for Gov­ House, Clinton also warned that his the same as the one that frequently separates mod- for the art of legislating by compromise. While Dole's ~rnor" banner and two flags behind ~litical rivals must now do their er,ates and conservatives In the Republican party at fingerprints have been on virtually every major piece of part to help him govern. 1t was the focusing target for the large. While Dole was once viewed as a GOP . mpd~r~te. ,le~latil)JI , ~na'cted in the last decade - including tax TV cameramen. ~ " We were held accountable yester­ his willingness to challenge Clinton's policies at every reform, immigration law and farm bills - Gingrich has day," Clinton said of Democrats in the Governor-Elect Graves in­ turn over the past two years have left no doubt about no major legislative achievements on his resume. troduced Majority Leader-Elect White Hou ~ e and Congress. He said his conservative credentials. A former history professor, Gingrich ran for the Dole, who introduced Kassebaum R~publicans would !lOW have "a Iarg­ Some say Dole has been influenced in recent years by House twice from Georgia before being elected in 1978. en responsibility for acting in the best soon to be chairman of the Senat~ the Gingrich school of politics. Dole - like Gingrich - From .the start of his career in Congress, he made it Labor' Committee, replacing Sen. il\.terest of America." He called on long ago rejected the genteel country cluJrstyle of Re- clear be was more interested in achieving a GOP ma­ them "to join· me in the center of the Ted Kennedy, and ·so on un~ publicanism adhered to by their predecflWOrs, s'uch as jority than passing any particular laws. the elected offic'ials had been ac- pUblic debate where the best ideas for retiring House Minority Leader Bob Mich~l of illliiKiis. · .... · Gingr-icbls strategy\•Which ultimatelysiK!et!eded, was to knowledged. , th'e next generation of American prog­ Yet when it co.mes to leading the new Republican challenge the Democratic majority at everything, large Dole said the election, which wilJ ress must come." majority in Congress, many GOP congressional insiders and smal~. His cadre of followers, known as the Conserva­ · · · ·But the mood at the White House put Republicans in control of both fear that Gingrich and Dole may be like oil and water tive Opportunity Society, quickly became a focal point for chamb.ers of Congress for the first grim as Clinton's advisers tried ~as - constantly at odds ov~r the style and dirrtion of newly el~ Republic!lns who dream~ of being i~ the time since 1954, was a "powerful .to;.grapple' with the enormity of the their party. majority. It was this group that propelled Gingrich Into the aefeat. With both houses. of CongreSs message from the America.n peo­ It is no secret on Capitql Hill that Gingrich ~nd Dole leadership in record ttme. ple." soon to be in hostile hands, advisers have never seen eye-to-eye on much of ·anything. Back By contrast, Dole's political career has been more . to Clintc;>n said Wednesday he recog- "We didn't lose a sin le in- in tbe 1980LWheJL..Dole._stlll setved-oD-the-Senate-tradltio'uaJi.----------------­ umbent;' he sa1d .o congres- _ied tiM-muclr\JMrlr leglsllnlve e Finance Committee, Gingrich won the senator's ever- He was elected tO the Senate in 1968 after eight years in sional races.