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.

A dozen Republican chairmen were forced to leave their positions because they faced six-year term limits.

A Republican national chairman like no other before him, Lee Atwater is undoubtedly the most controversial and successful political operative in America.

He became Republican chairman just as Watergate was about to hit.

He is currently Republican chairman of the House Commerce Committee.

As Republican national chairman, Haley Barbour designed his party's campaign to cut the growth of Medicare.

These include the improper arrangements made by Haley Barbour, then Republican chairman, to secure foreign collateral for a bank loan in 1994.

He said that party officials he knew when he was Republican national chairman in 1972 "still look very young, and we are - we've only just begun."

Mr. Gilmore also is Republican national chairman, a job he may lose given Tuesday's losses.

As Republican chairman, I am proud of my party and loyal to our members.

He was also Republican chairman of Orchard Park.