Word: newt
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...congressman's troubles aren't over yet. Although House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today he would not push for Reynolds' resignation, Reynolds still faces investigation by the House ethics commission, which could recommend expulsion. Reynolds also faces a federal probe into allegations that he diverted campaign funds toward personal...
...When Newt Gingrich was fighting his way through a horde of reporters into Border Books in Phoenix, Arizona, last Wednesday, it didn't take too much imagination to reduce the temperature by 70 degrees, raze the palm trees, and picture another gray-haired politician caught in press gridlock in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1992, right after Gennifer Flowers made her charges against then-Governor Bill Clinton. Now it's Gingrich's turn, and it's Anne Manning, a former campaign worker, who went on the record for the first time in a just-published Vanity Fair article saying...
...NEWT'S TROOPERGATE...
...Trash" and "tabloid psychobabble" was the response from Speaker Newt Gingrich's office to a scorching article in the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine alleging that the family-values-flogging politician engaged in a series of affairs during his first marriage...
Although Speaker Newt Gingrich doesn't smoke, his press secretary Tony Blankley's cigarette habit is such that Blankley has been known to light up using the tiny flames under chafing dishes at early-morning press breakfasts. For Blankley, the relaxed smoking rules signify not a smelly sort of revenge, as Democrats view it, but a return to a more civilized era, redolent of Edwardian velvet jackets. "I'm hopeful that as a society we are returning to the habits of an earlier day when good manners ruled rather than dogma," he says. Antismoking rules are unnecessary, he believes...