Word: gingrichs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of State George Shultz grandly staged their own truce negotiations, but that hardly dispels what one Congressman calls a "reservoir of bitterness" against the Speaker. Some of that is normal in the election season, but it seemed to go beyond all bounds last week when Georgia's Newt Gingrich stormed through Florida calling Wright a "genuinely corrupt man" and comparing him to Mussolini. Even given Gingrich's right-wing fervor, that is startling stuff...
...much on taxes. Several critics said the $30.2 billion in estimated savings for fiscal 1988 will hardly make a dent in the deficit for that year, which Congress projects will be $179.9 billion. Senator Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican, called the budget package a "miserable little pittance." Congressman Newt Gingrich was even more acerbic in his appraisal. "It's a perfect summit deal for Thanksgiving vacation," said the Georgia Republican. "These leaders labored and produced the largest turkey of them...
...used marijuana, including a staggering 64% of those ages 18 to 25. Indeed, two Democratic presidential candidates, Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt, were prompted to admit that they too had tried pot years ago. Similar confessions came from Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island and conservative Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia...
...lifetime -- no easy task for a man just turned 76 -- and surround himself ! once more with aides who will challenge him, rather than merely people he feels comfortable with. And even if he does, Washington teems with skeptics who think it may be too late. Says Newt Gingrich, a conservative Republican Congressman from Georgia: "He will never again be the Reagan that he was before he blew it. He is not going to regain our trust and our faith easily...
Ronald Reagan is no longer the apple of our eye--or the sunshine of our life. Even his friends feel betrayed. "He will never again be the Reagan that he was before the blew it," Republican Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, one of the President's staunchest allies in the Congress, said the other day. "He is not going to regain our trust and faith easily...