Word: gingriched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outward appearances, Newt Gingrich was spending his Christmastime in an unusually relaxed manner. He gazed upon his beloved dinosaur bones at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, then traveled with his wife Marianne to visit relatives in Pennsylvania. But the leisurely itinerary masked grave deliberations between the Speaker and the House ethics committee. And in a written statement released on Saturday, Gingrich made a dramatic admission: "In my name and over my signature, inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the [ethics] committee, but I did not intend to mislead...I did not seek personal gain...
...weeks, Gingrich had been embroiled in a crisis. While voters decided on Nov. 5 to give his G.O.P. majority another chance, his House colleagues were increasingly tense about doing the same for him. The problem was timing. The House is scheduled to re-elect the Speaker on Jan. 7, and the ethics committee is scrambling to finish its work before that. While Gingrich's admission on Saturday--essentially a guilty plea to violations uncovered by the ethics committee's four-panel subcommittee--was clearly an attempt to speed the process, it also reflected a sharp, sudden change of course from...
...House G.O.P. leaders rallied to support his re-election, Democrats circled ravenously. Said David Bonior, Democratic whip and the Speaker's nemesis: "Mr. Gingrich engaged in a pattern of tax fraud, lies and cover-up in paving his road to the second highest office of this land. He is not worthy of that office." Bonior called for the Department of Justice, the FBI, a grand jury and others to investigate. Said he: "The Gingrich case does not end here...
...scores of ethical charges hurled at Gingrich over the past two years, one worried his allies the most. It was the suggestion that he may have lied to the House ethics committee about the college course he taught and financed through a tax-exempt foundation. Gingrich initially professed not to know what the committee was hinting at when it questioned whether the Speaker had provided "accurate, reliable and complete information." And in an interview with TIME shortly before the election, he noted, "My attorney, who by the way has won three Supreme Court cases, does not have a clue what...
...that Hillary Clinton alienated many Americans "because she seemed not to realize that the citizenry expects its powerful leaders, male and female, to show the humility befitting those whose authority is merely on loan." I have never heard that requirement of powerful men. Do we ask humility of Newt Gingrich? Teddy Kennedy? And why should she be humble? The Hillary Clinton I know (we were college classmates) is an amazing blend of intelligence, charm, ambition, energy and thoughtfulness. How sad that we have made her feel as if she should put a bag over her head and hide...