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Last Thursday night, exactly one year since his triumphant ascent to the Speaker's chair, Gingrich stood before his troops at a private session in the Cannon caucus room. He had told them then that there would come a dark hour, when the fight would grow hard, the polls pitiless, the prospects bleak. And he had promised he would be right at their side, that once they had won the war, all the pain would be forgotten...
There have been three great Speakers in American history: Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902), Joseph Cannon (1836-1926) and Sam Rayburn (1882-1961). For almost two decades, Rayburn held power in Washington. Presidents came and went: Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy. But whoever was President, Sam Rayburn was Speaker. His power over one branch of government was so immense that it spilled over into the other branches...
...CERTAINLY HAS BEEN THE MOST INFLUential Speaker of the House in the past century, since Joseph Cannon. Sam Rayburn was respected and influential, but he was not an active formulator of agendas. He was very influential in lining up votes and he was consulted by the President, but he did not say, "I have a vision; I want the government to be this and do that." It is very rare to have a Speaker of the House who has a vision of any kind, because they usually don't get chosen for that role...
Though Gingrich is the first Speaker to be Man of the Year, he is by no means the only one to grace TIME's cover. Our very first issue, dated March 3, 1923, showcased Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, a 23-term Republican who had just announced his retirement. "To Uncle Joe the Speakership was a gift from heaven," TIME declared. "And he followed the divine call with a resolute evangelism that was no mere voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that forbade anybody else to cry out--out of turn." Nearly three-quarters...
During the long night watches as they sailed to Mururoa, La Rebaude's hands told Greenpeace stories, many of which shared the same moral: "The military lies. Corporations lie. We don't lie." Twilly Cannon, from Missoula, Montana, the boat's captain, endured months in 1990 stalking the Soviet navy as it prepared to ditch another spent nuclear reactor in the Kara Sea northeast of Murmansk. Michelle Sheather, an Australian, was on the Rainbow Warrior when the French blew it up, and had left the ship 15 minutes before the limpet mines went...