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- GRAPEVINE, Page 43Bill Bennett's Firm Friends
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- By RICHARD ZOGLIN/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- That funny noise you hear in Washington is the sound of
- Republican mouths clamping shut after the selection of former
- drug czar William Bennett as chairman of the Republican National
- Committee. When Bennett's name was first floated, many
- Republican leaders howled privately about Bennett's late
- conversion to the party (he was a Democrat until 1986) and his
- dearth of political expertise. Once President Bush named his
- man, however, the bashers suddenly became boosters. One
- prominent, now silent opponent, according to White House
- sources: Republican pollster Robert Teeter, a close Bush
- adviser. Teeter denies any outcry. "It's not true," he says.
- "Bill and I have been friends a long time."
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