Word: gingriched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrity they had come to hear. "I'm telling you, he's pushing an agenda," the man said in an agitated voice. His wife calmly replied, "He's pushing his book, that's what he's pushing." The man considered her words and shook his head. "You think Newt Gingrich isn't pushing an agenda? A leopard doesn't change his spots...
There is an agenda, but probably not the one the man suspected. As Gingrich crisscrosses the country selling Lessons Learned the Hard Way, a contrite new book about his tumultuous first three years as Speaker of the House, he is telling audiences and readers alike that he has metamorphosed from the tantrum-prone revolutionary of 1995 into a sober leader who has finally figured out how to run Congress. And by dropping into bookstores in New Hampshire last week and Iowa this week (both early-primary states), he is hinting strongly at a run for the White House. But what...
Clinton: While it doesn't go as far as we'd like in some areas, it's a huge step in the right direction. Speaker Gingrich said he wasn't going to let me get to the left of him on tobacco. I guess that means he's prone to do something, and that's good news. I think we can build on this momentum and that the issue is rocking along pretty well...
Even Republicans have come to applaud this most successful of Democrats. Ronald Reagan voted four times for F.D.R. Newt Gingrich calls F.D.R. the greatest President of the century. Bob Dole praises F.D.R. as an "energetic and inspiring leader during the dark days of the Depression; a tough, single-minded Commander in Chief during World War II; and a statesman...
...Nashville, Tenn.; a globally scattered network of chums from Harvard Business School; ceaseless international E-mail; cell-phone calls from a lawyer named Larry; and Yan's addiction to the jet-set schmooze fest in Davos, Switzerland, each January. "I go to Davos and can talk to Newt Gingrich," enthuses Yan, who indeed seems voluble enough to talk to anyone, quite emphatically, and at any length. "I call him Newt. And I realize we're all the same: the trousers go on one leg at a time. Most people in China don't realize that...