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\"I feel that this is the right time for me,\" Mr. [Tom Daschle] said. \"I'm ready to take on that challenge.\"

\"This is a struggle between the Democratic White House and the Republican Congress,\" Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, the majority leader, said on Nov. 11, \"and we ought to be able to settle it without additional players.\" For a Senator, or even for an ordinary person, Mr. Daschle, 48, has a remarkably small ego. He dismisses those successes by saying, \"It doesn't take much to stop stuff here -- it's getting things passed that's hard.\" Mr. Byrd observed this week, \"Being minority leader isn't the greatest job in the world.\" For little reward, he said, \"it takes a great deal of skill and tact and patience, tenacity -- and just plain thick skin.\"

The Democrats contend that the notes are distorted, but the phrases have a familiar ring: \"Democrats not getting credit,\" \"there is little identity for the Democratic Party,\" \"reconnecting Democrats with the middle class\" and \"we are not identified with anyone.\" The notes also cite poll numbers -- numbers which Mr. Mellman said were wildly out of date -- showing that Republican Senators have much higher favorable ratings than Democrats. While Mr. Klain said he did not have the memo in front of him and thus could not cite specific inaccuracies, he asserted that the notes presented \"so twisted\" a summation of the meeting that they were \"more wrong than right.\" \"If Rush Limbaugh wants to gloat about this, more power to him,\" he said. \"But the notes are very very selective. Mark's presentation was as much about the good things as the bad things.\" John Czwartacki, press secretary for the House Republican Conference, said the Democrats were practicing spin control, and he insisted that he was told the notes were authentic. \"They're a true reflection of what was going on behind closed doors,\" he said. \"It's a pretty cut-to-the-chase analysis.\" Mr. Czwartacki joked that the notes were probably left at the store by someone who was depressed after the meeting and \"was in a rush to get a drink.\"

To the contrary, an agreement was reached wherein the Secretaries of Agriculture and Transportation will examine the cost efficiencies of consolidating Agriculture Department inspections under the F.A.A., without reducing aircraft, passenger or pilot safety standards or lowering preparedness, and the feasibility of applying this policy government-wide. That has always been the goal of my efforts, and I look forward to that report. TOM DASCHLE U.S. Senator from South Dakota Washington, Oct. 16, 1994 You assert that I sought to \"curtail some Federal aviation inspections after a friend's charter service was cited.\" That is inaccurate. Since 1992, before I knew of infractions by South Dakota operators, I sought to consolidate duplicative Federal inspections of air charter pilots and planes while keeping the stiff safety standards of each Federal agency.

The race to succeed Senator George J. Mitchell as majority leader was simplified a bit yesterday. Senator [Harry Reid] of Nevada, right, conferred with Senator [Tom Daschle] of South Dakota before the two announced that Mr.

A picture caption yesterday about Senator Harry Reid's withdrawal from the race...

The accounts from F.A.A. officials about Mrs. Daschle broaden the questions about Mr. Daschle and B & L Aviation. Although the issue has not attracted great attention outside South Dakota, many of Mr. Daschle's colleagues, both Democrats and Republicans, have had intensive private discussions about whether it has the potential to affect his standing as minority leader. In an interview the doctors' wives questioned whether Mr. Daschle had improperly used his influence to help Mr. Bellew. The women have also written to the Senate Ethics Committee seeking an investigation into Mr. Daschle's actions. Several Republican senators said in interviews they were trying to decide how to respond to that request. Mr. Daschle said he acted after Mr. Bellew had complained that having both agencies inspect his planes was wasteful. Mr. Daschle pushed legislation that would have concentrated inspections in the F.A.A. and eliminated the Forest Service's role. He said he had always insisted that any consolidation not compromise safety.

The inquiry, which concluded that agency officials had destroyed no documents, grew out of charges that Senator Daschle had tried to have air safety inspections by the United States Forest Service eliminated to help a friend whose air charter company was repeatedly deemed unsafe by Forest Service inspectors.

Is Anyone Investigating Senator Daschle\" (editorial, May 29) implies that the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General is delaying or not pursuing an investigation of Senator Tom Daschle, his wife, Linda Daschle, deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration,...

\"That makes for a certain kind of comity. You know, you don't have to always agree with a person, or like them, they're just senior.\" Mr. [Daniel Patrick Moynihan] was careful to add that \"Senator [Thomas A. Daschle]'s an extraordinary Senator, and he's going to have a long and eminent career here, and I'd be happy to work with him, too.\" A [Ralph J. Marino] aide said Mr. [George E. Pataki] \"gave his word to Marino that he's going to be neutral.\" But, the aide said, Mr. Pataki's decision to attend the fund-raiser \"does nothing to move the endorsment process along.\" Mr. [Chuck Haytaian] did not critique the ads, but he said he didn't understand the reason for them. \"We haven't done anything yet,\" he said, referring to running television ads. Mr. O'Brien said there has been no direct contact yet from the Haytaian campaign, \"but people around the campaign have been talking to us.\"