Just over a week ago, Enid and Joe Waldholtz seemed to be a nauseatingly happy power couple in Newt's Washington. She was a 37-year-old Republican lawyer from Salt Lake City and a star freshman congresswoman—"wide-eyed, uncynical and as yet uncorrupted by proximity to power," swooned People magazine. He was a savvy, 32-year-old GOP operator with money and connections who helped run George Bush's '92 campaign in Pennsylvania. Politics had brought them together; they met at a gathering of Young Republicans in 1991. Married just two years (the governor of Utah performed the ceremony), "they always gave the impression of being unreservedly in love," friend Michael O'Connell told NEWSWEEK. In Washington they rented the Georgetown house Henry Kissinger once owned. Two months ago, Enid had a daughter, Elizabeth, becoming only the second member of Congress to give birth while in office. It was a model political partnership.
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