November 25, 2008 09:05 PM
Web Team
At 40, John “Chip” Saltsman is the youngster among the men competing to be the next chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Early starts appear to be a Saltsman pattern. His family was in construction, and he says he drove dump trucks starting at age 14. He became the nation’s youngest state party chair at age 30 in 1998, and had trouble getting into the initial chairman’s meeting, as the guard didn’t believe he was old enough to be the new chairman...