Won election to the House of Representatives in 1994 after an expensive and bitter race against Herb Klein, a freshman Democrat.

Both Herb Klein and Bill Martini are lawyers who live in Clifton.

"You see in history a number of references to 'the New Nixon,' " recalls Herb Klein, Nixon's director of communications.

Herb Klein, editor in chief of Copley Press, said the company had considered two plans for The Tribune.

"She was a redhead, and fun," recalled Herb Klein, an early Nixon supporter who later became White House communications director.

Herb Klein and Bob Finch, both old Nixon hands, wondered aloud if the president-elect might appoint Woods as White House chief of staff.

Herb Klein, speaking in a whisper, kept banging his foot against the coffee table.

In 1994, when Mr. Martini defeated Herb Klein, the Democratic incumbent, the two spent a combined total of nearly $2 million.

In 1962, while working for the Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard M. Nixon, Wilson got to know Herb Klein, one of Nixon's top aides.

Its spokesman is Paul Costello, one of the good guys who used to work for Herb Klein.