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Newt Gingrich, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, was once the right's rebel leader. But his slash-and-burn politics backfired, and Republican members of Congress, who took a beating in the 1998 elections, ousted him as Speaker. Defeat hasn't silenced Gingrich, however. TIME's Douglas Waller finds out what's on his mind today...
...MISS BEING SPEAKER...
...REPUBLICAN PARTY BECOME TOO STRIDENT UNDER YOUR SPEAKERSHIP? Go back to that period and look at the 125,000 negative ads run by the other side. The cover your magazine did of me after I was elected Speaker showed me as Scrooge holding Tiny Tim's broken crutch. That was over the top. On the other hand, if Bush had been President, I would have been a pussycat...
Graham recalls that it was only as an “afterthought” that she and 50 others interrupted the Commencement exercises. They brought their own megaphones and even seized the microphone from the graduation speaker...
...course, there are always skeptics, and that is good. But I’ve been invited to different fora and to be the keynote speaker at a forum at Harvard later this month. All of this is very encouraging. In science it’s always good to really have to prove your theory to everyone—especially the skeptical—and that is what I hope to do. My family also is incredibly supportive. They are very proud of and pleased with me and all my work...