Over the holidays, the Republican chairman said he went into his office and read some of the mail from party loyalists around the country.

The Republican chairmen who replaced them voted with the federation 97 percent of the time.

The Republican chairman said that the flag issue was on his list of discussion topics but that he never got to it.

As a result, the Republican chairman actually assigns committee staff members to work for Democratic members.

The Republican chairman is spending every other week on the road, hitting swing states as well as party hotbeds.

After becoming Republican chairman he began talking about attracting black voters to Republican ranks.

The Republican chairman, however, has not undertaken to teach his party an elementary lesson of American politics for purely educational reasons.

For two months, the Republican chairman had won much publicity and favorable comment for his active courting of blacks.

The Republican chairman is considered critical in preparing the party for the 1992 elections, setting the issues that will become its agenda, planning strategy and raising money.

"She would be a very, very strong candidate," said Fred Meyer, the Republican chairman.