And then there's the little matter of whether Newt joins the race. His wife, Marianne, is against the idea, and Gingrich himself puts the odds of his running at no better than 19 to 1. Even so, Marlin Fitzwater, Bush's longtime press secretary, is one...

Office of Management and Budget -- won't be the first Jew to hold the highest ranking position in the Executive Office of the President. President Reagan has promoted Kenneth Duberstein, his deputy chief of staff, to White House chief of staff, the...

In 1988 White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater acknowledged that Ronald and Nancy were devoted to astrology. Rumors had circulated about this since Reagan had insisted on being inaugurated as Governor of California at 12:10 a.m. in order to have a...

“I specifically asked Newt Gingrich if he would support it, and he said, ‘yes,’” Sununu told the paper. “The next day, for whatever reason, and nobody has ever been able to explain it to us, Gingrich decided that he was going to oppose it.” As York...

As we reported last Thursday, many political observers have long believed that this Bush about-face on his 1988 “Read my lips, no new taxes” pledge cost him a second term. A key player in the middle of the action at the time was former 10-year White...