"I was a bigger supporter of William Bennett," its conservative chairman, he added.

But the sponsor of this year's version is none other than Pat Roberts, the conservative chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.

Say this about Roy Innis, CORE's conservative national chairman: you can count on him not to shrink from marching to a different drummer.

One of them was Representative W. R. Poage of Texas, the 75-year-old conservative chairman of the Agriculture Committee.

Senator Jesse Helms, the conservative chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was thinking out loud today about the countless classified closed-door Pentagon briefings he had received.

To be sure, the Fed's conservative chairman, Alan Greenspan, will still keep a wary eye out for signs of reviving inflationary pressures.

Its hard-right conservative chairman is battling almost daily with the moderates who ran the party until a few years ago.

Last year, as the combatively conservative chairman of the House Budget Committee, he played a pivotal role in putting together the bipartisan balanced budget agreement.

Representative Jim Nussle, Republican of Iowa, is the fiscally conservative chairman of the House Budget Committee.

Of all the president's counselors, the most prescient turns out to be his old mentor, the conservative chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Richard Russell.