21.   Clearly, a president can strike it rich as soon as he leaves office, becayse of book contracts, speaking fees and appearances.

22.   Committee staffers described the letter as evidence of potential book contracts for Lewis.

23.   Does the potential for book contracts speak to motive?

24.   Despite a warning from the ethics committee that the panel had not yet ruled on the validity of the project, the speaker signed his book contract in May.

25.   Eager to cash in on his political success, he negotiates a book contract that includes the whiny services of ghost writer Garrison Keillor.

26.   Ethics committee chairwoman Nancy Johnson, R-Conn., said the committee will review the book contract next week.

27.   Erma Bombeck, like Lewis, parlayed a syndicated newspaper column into a multimillion dollar book contract and personal appearances that earned hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.

28.   Gingrich contended Frank had attacked his controversial book contract.

29.   Gecker denied on Monday night that he is seeking a book contract for Mrs. Willey.

30.   He also has accused the speaker, a Georgia Republican, of breaking House rules by accepting a lucrative book contract with a publishing house owned by Rupert Murdoch.