Newt Gingrich's Skeleton Closet: Scandals, Quotes, and Character

Repeated adultery with younger women, while each successive wife was seriously ill. Attacking mortgage lender Freddie Mac, while secretly getting paid $1.6 million as a lobbyist for them. A half-million charge account at Tiffany's Jewelers for his latest, youngest woman (that we know of). Attacking Congress for gridlock, when he personally led the destruction of Congress' civility and traditions in the 1980s as a "bomb-thrower" and evil genius tactician. (Seriously, look it up.)

All this for 30 years running, and he's still a leading contender for President as a religious, morally crusading Republican? Yeah, he's smarter alright. As an historian, he knows Americans forget anything over 5 years old, and the press will ignore your long-term character traits if you give them any new, shiny story to report.

It's not that Newt lacks charm. My personal favorite thing is that he loves, loves, LOVES dinosaurs, with the deep enthusiasm of a five-year-old boy. He even gave a zoo $15,000 to buy 2 huge monitor lizards. For that matter, did you notice how many of his "visionary" scientific ideas involve lasers and outer space and huge explosions?

A MOON BASE?!?! AWESOME!!! That's adorable. The problem is, most five year olds have a sincere narcissism that would lead them to happily order far-off cities destroyed if they got some candy in return. That's why we don't put them in charge of the world.

I've researched a lot of polticians' scandals over the years. Some are lying, adulterious lechers (Clinton). Some are money-grubbing and corrupt (Santorum). Some are vindictive and dangerously authoritarian (Giuliani). Some are incredibly phony and change with the wind (Romney). Some are draft dodgers (actually, most of them are). But in 17 years, only one man has been able to combine every one of these moral failings into one, super-humanly despicable candidate: Newt Gingrich. Click on the allegation of your choice:

Adultery -- Draft Dodger -- Lying Corporate Lobbyist -- Spending Spree at Tiffany's -- Who Owns Him? -- Divorce, Disease and Younger Women -- Dead-Beat Dad -- House Banking Scandal -- Wannabe Dictator -- GOPAC sleaze -- Corporate $ to Newt's wife -- Shady Book Deals -- Sources -- Quotes

"We would have won in 1974 if we could have kept him out of the office, screwing her [a young volunteer] on the desk." - Dot Crews, his campaign scheduler at the time

[In the book] "Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them", [I] "found frightening pieces that related to my own life." - Newt.

"I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to." - Newt, speaking to Gail Sheehy.

"She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife. And besides, she has cancer." - Newt, on his first wife (Jackie, his high school teacher)

"I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be." - Newt's second wife Marianne.

“She [Callista] is the single most self-centered person I’ve run into in politics—it’s all about her. They do these movies together, and she does a word count: she has to have the same number of words on camera as he does or they have to reshoot. ...And Callista did not want him to run for President. That’s why he had to buy her so much damn jewelry.” - an unnamed "former strategist." Will Rogers, Newt's ex-Iowa strategist has denied it was him.

"He treats me really nicely, buys me all these ices. Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi and that Donna, Karan, he be sharin' All that money got me wearin'" -- Callista? No wait, that's Fergie, "My Humps"

"[I was] very lonely, very driven, and pretty weird as a kid." -- Newt

"It doesn't matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live." - Newt, as he dumped his second wife for a younger, healthier woman

"Fannie Mae is an excellent example of a former government institution fulfilling its mandate while functioning in the market economy.” -- Newt, 1995





-- Quote Sources





Sex on the Desk - Oral Sex is More Easily Denied

In 1995, several newspapers began reporting that Newt Gingrich was dating and basically living with Callista Bisek, a "willowy blond Congressional aide 23 years his junior." Bisek, then 33, had been spending nights at Gingrich's apartment near the Capitol and had her own key, they reported. In an amazing act of hypocrisy, Gingrich was apparently dating Bisek all during the Clinton-Lewinsky adultery scandal, even as he proclaimed family values and bitterly criticized the President for his adultery.

Reporters and other Washington insiders have known about this relationship since 1994, even before Gingrich became Speaker of the House, but did not have any solid proof to report. In 1995, Vanity Fair magazine described Bisek as Gingrich's "frequent breakfast companion." Gingrich was married to Marianne Gingrich during all of that time, and didn't file for divorce until August 1999 ).fter Marianne refused to consider an open marriage.)

Newt is apparently trying to create a new hybrid form, Christian adultery. Bisek sings in the National Shrine Choir, and Newt would often wait for her at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, listening to her sing while he read the Bible, during their affair.

This is hardly the first time Newt has cheated, either. "It was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his [first] marriage to Jackie. Maybe not on the level of John Kennedy. But he had girlfriends -- some serious, some trivial." -- Dot Crews, his campaign scheduler throughout the 70s. One woman, Anne Manning, has come forward and confirmed a relationship with him during the 1976 campaign. "We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'"

Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, was walking Newt's daughters back from a football game one day and cut across a driveway where he saw a car. "As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then."

Bizarrely, Newt has tried to justify his adultery as resulting from his patriotism. When asked on the Christian Broadcasting Network about his cheating, he said “There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.” He did not say whether his patriotism is any weaker now than it was when it forced him to sleep with younger women. But he's given at least one hint that the answer is no. In July 2011, a conservative Christian group asked the Republican candidates to sign a statement promising marital fidelity. Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann quickly signed, but Newt refused, saying he wanted to make some changes in the language first. "“We’re happy to work with you to sharpen it so people understand where we’re going with it,” Gingrich said to Family Leader head Bob Vander Plaats. "It's not there yet.” -- Sources



Family Values? Pressing Wife for Divorce in the Hospital -- Back

"He walked out in the spring of 1980.... By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, "Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?" When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my surgery." - Jackie, his first wife. One of Newt's daughters from that first marriage, who is also a conservative columnist, recently disputed that story (after Newt co-authored a book with her), saying among other things that her mother Jackie had initiated the divorce and that "the tumor [removed in a surgery the day before] was benign." Of course no one knew the tumor was benign at the time, so I don't know why that is supposed to matter. And CNN recently found court documents that show that Newt did in fact initiate that divorce -- which makes him a blatant liar, too. In any case, I'm inclined to believe the wife this happened to over the account of her daughter who was a child at that time (and earns easy money from her dad today.) -- Sources



Spending Spree at Tiffany's -- Back

Newt brazenly attacks Mitt Romney as rich and out of touch -- after it came out that he owed the luxury jeweler Tiffany's between a quarter million and a half million dollars for pretty things he bought his wife. We think he bought them for his wife, anyway. If not Callista, maybe the next one. -- Sources



Lying Corporate Lobbyist -- Back

There are few things any current candidate has done more hypocritical than Newt's corporate lobbying work for the mortgage giant Freddie Mac. You see, Newt has publicly attacked Freddie Mac for years, blaming it for the 2008 housing crash. Then we found out that they paid him $1.6 million, as he went around and tried to convince Republicans to vote for Freddie Mac's favorite bills (and against regulations on them). Newt denies he was lobbying -- because his work didn't meet some technical definitions of lobbying -- and claimed, ridiculously that they paid him to be a "historian." No historian in history has earned $1.6 million.

Newt didn't report to Freddie Mac's director of history. (Spoiler alert; no company has one.) He reported to Craig Thomas, who was in charge of lobbying for them (and a registered lobbyist himself). and paid Newt $25,000 a month. On January 24, 2012, Newt finally released his contract. Guess what is not described in his services? History. In fact, Newt admits that he only talked to Freddie Mac staff for about one hour per month. At $25,000/ hour, that's a lot of history for a mortgage lender.

And Freddie Mac is not the only company Newt lobbied for. He had dozens of corporate clients who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for his "services." He promoted his health care clients to legislators in Georgia or Florida who were considered changes in health care laws. He talked up projects that his clients IBM and HealthTrio were working on, to federal officials. He pushed for changes to Medicare that would enrich other clients of his. And one client, drug maker Novo Nordisk, described Newt's work this way in their annual report: "Such activities are often referred to as lobbying.”

Newt actually was a champion of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as far back as 1995, when he blocked (as Speaker of the House) two attempts to raise fees on the two companies by hundreds of millions of dollars. The two flew Newt and his then-wife Marianne to Ireland in 1998, for a publicity event/vacation, and within months after Newt resigned from Congress in disgrace, Freddie Mac began paying him cash as a consultant. -- Sources





Dead-Beat Dad -- Back

The hospital visit wasn't the end of it, either. Shortly after the cancer ward visit, Newt stopped paying alimony and child support. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get money out of him, and her Baptist church needed to take up a collection to get his kids food and prevent the utilities from being cut off. He has never apologized for this or admitted it was a mistake. -- Sources



Draft Dodger -- Back

Though he relentlessly pushes military spending and talks like a bigtime hawk, Gingrich avoided the Vietnam War through a combination of student and family deferments. (He married one of his high school teachers at age 19, and quickly got her pregnant.) In the presidential debate on January 7, 2012, Gingrich claimed that "I never asked for a deferment, I was married with a child, it was never a question." That sounded pretty like a pretty solid defense until Ron Paul pointed out that he had a wife and two children when he was drafted -- and he went anyway.





Problems With Women? -- Back

When Newt's first wife Jackie was still in the hospital recovering from her third cancer surgery, Newt came to her bed and -- by his own admission -- "argued" with her over the terms of the divorce that he wanted (and she didn't). Newt also graciously told one of his aides that "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife. And besides, she has cancer." Later it emerged that he had been having an affair with a younger woman, Marianne. But his second marriage -- to Marianne -- wasn't much smoother either. In fact it was very similar. After Marianne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Newt told her about an affair with a younger woman, Callista, that he had been having for six years. She says that Newt didn't ask for divorce this time -- he asked her to have an "open marriage" where he could also sleep with Callista. Marianne refused, and they divorced.

Does Newt have some kind of problem with women? He has said that he read a book called "Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them", and "found frightening pieces that related to my own life."

-- Sources





Wannabe Dictator -- Back

Newt has a grandiosity and self-importance that's hard to believe. Since he was in college, he has been telling people he needs to lead America so he can change history and save us all from disaster. No exaggeration -- check out this 1995 New Yorker profile. Darryl Conner, a Gingrich friend who Newt has hired to train congressmen, remembers first working with him 40 years ago, when Newt was 28 years old. "It couldn't have been more than a few days before he was talking about what he needed to do to save Western civilization."

Frank Gregorsky, Newt's former chief of staff, said he once asked Newt to be more philosophically coherent, and Gingrich replied "Saving civilization is hard. You have to be fluid." Newt asked Frank to read Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy (very cool science fiction, in my humble opinion), explaining "I think of things in hundred-year increments, so I wanted you to read Asimov, because that conveys the course of civilization over five hundred years, because that's how I think."

And because he's so important (in his own mind), he is a real risk for authoritarian rule if elected. Heck, he has promised authoritarian rule. In between all his scandals, he has vowed to fire all liberal government workers and arrest judges who rule against him. So if he gets elected, don't be surprised if he grabs all those powers Dick Cheney carved out after 9/11 -- detaining US citizens without trial, warrantless wiretapping, torture -- and uses them to fight anyone who opposes his power. After all, he's saving Western civilization.

-- Sources





House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks -- Back

Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don't, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn't help.





Lucrative and Questionable Book Deals: Murdoch's $4.5 Million wasn't the first -- Back

The 1995 Murdoch Deal --- The 1984 Book Deal

The 1995 Murdoch Deal -- Back

Back in 1995, Newt's book scandal was pretty big news. He was offered first $2.5 million, then $4.5 million by Harper Collins, a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Fox TV network and newspapers and TV stations around the world. Murdoch has been having problems with a complaint by NBC that Fox is a foreign owned TV network, which is against US law.

In the past, Harper Collins has offered million dollar book contracts to several conservative politicians in countries where Murdoch was having regulatory trouble, including England (Margaret Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer) and China (Deng Xiaoping's daughter). A week after the initial offer, Newt met with Rupert Murdoch - and Murdoch's legislative lobbyist - to discuss politics, including the NBC complaint. As facts about the deal were made public, and even Republicans criticized him, Gingrich decided to give up the $4.5 million advance for a still-lucrative deal based on royalties.

Gingrich's story kept changing through the controversy. First, Newt's spokesman said that Murdoch knew nothing about Gingrich and the book deal. On Friday January 13, Newt's spokesman admitted that Murdoch actually met Newt on a park bench the week before the deal was made, but didn't talk about it. He also said he knew nothing about Murdoch's lobbyist being at their meeting. The next day, he admitted the lobbyist was there, but claimed he didn't say so because no one asked.

Newt also said repeatedly that the book wasn't his idea; that a literary agent named Lynn Chu had sought him out and proposed it. After Ms. Chu said that Gingrich's associate Jeff Eisenach called her first on Newt's behalf, Eisenach and Newt's spokesman admitted that was true.

The 1984 Book Deal

Murdoch's book deal wasn't the first lucrative and controversial book deal Newt engineered. In 1983 he established a limited partnership in Atlanta called COS Limited, which pulled together about two dozen of his biggest campaign contributors to finance his book.

The former administrator of his congressional offices in Georgia, Dolores Adamson, resigned over the deal. "The manuscript was put together in the district office using office equipment," she said. "He would just come in and say 'This is what I want to do.' I would say, 'This is not ethical," but after a while he didn't listen." That office equipment, of course, was paid for by US taxpayers including you.

After these two book deals, Gingrich got smart and started his own book and movie-making operation, mostly focused on fear of Islam, which earned him and Callista (who works there too) a cool $3 million in 2010. -- Sources





GOPAC sleaze: Taxpayer subsidies for his partisan campaign course. -- Back

Newt in his poltical career was the king of using tax-payer subsidized donations for his personal and political purposes. He stooped so low as to hijack not one but two charities for poor inner city kids and use their donations for his personal goals.

GOPAC, Newt's longtime political action committee, was the centerpiece of a complex network of non-profit, and mostly tax exempt organizations that Newt has used to support himself and other conservative candidates. In an act of incredible hypocrisy, this crusader against taxes obtained taxpayer subsidies for his personal and political goals, by misusuing these tax-exempt groups.

For example, one GOPAC document said that its goal for the 1990s was "to both create and disseminate the doctrine of a majority Republican party." In another GOPAC document, titled "Key Factors in a House GOP Majority," Gingrich wrote "It is more powerful and more effective to develop a reform movement parallel to the official Republican party", instead of using the party structure, because it would get more attention and be more credible. Shortly thereafter, GOPAC paid for a television program promoting a "grassroots" movement to reform government; publicly they claimed it was nonpartisan, but private internal documents made its partisan goals clear.

After it got expensive, Gingrich transferred the program to the "Abraham Lincoln Opportunity Foundation," a tax-exempt group controlled by a GOPAC official named Bo Callaway. It had been set up years earlier to help inner city kids, which is why it was tax exempt. The group spent $260,000 on the television program in 1990. That same year, Newt started another tax-exempt group that paid poor students for reading books. He bragged of this in many a political speech. But after the first two years, most of this foundation's money went to Mel Steely, a former Gingrich aide who is now Newt's official biographer.

The best known effort was a college course (titled "Renewing American Civilization") at a small college that Gingrich nakedly used to recruit and organize conservative candidates, and to feed them his carefully constructed ideology and political slogans.

Of course, using tax-exempt educational or charitable donations for partisan purposes is illegal, and several ethics complaints were filed against Gingrich. He agreed to pay a $300,000 fine for misleading the committee during the investigation, and in the process dodged conviction on the actual charges through a combination of finessing some legal definitions, sheer self-confidence and raw political power (as Speaker of the House at the time of the complaints, he appointed the ethics committee. Furthermore, GOPAC had one ethics committee member on its roster last session, and gave money to another.)

The Ethics Committee dropped its final charges against Gingrich not long before he resigned as speaker, despite finding that Gingrich had in fact violated one rule by repeatedly using a political consultant paid by GOPAC to develop the Republican political agenda, because there was no evidence he was continuing to do so.

The IRS also started an investigation of one group, the Progress and Freedom Foundation, for violating its tax-exempt status by donating to Gingrich's college course. In the investigation, the special counsel found that these activities were "substantially motivated by partisan political goals." The IRS eventually overruled him, and found that the course "was educational and never favored or opposed a candidate for public office.'' It said the foundation ``did not intervene on behalf of candidates of the Republican Party merely by promoting'' themes in the course. This extremely narrow reading of the law basically said "so what if he used the course to recruit, organize and groom candidates; as long as they didn't say 'Vote for Jones', it wasn't partisan." Despite what Gingrich fans argue, this hardly proves his innocence. The IRS has chickened out before in political cases, notably letting the Church of Scientology completely off the hook in its investigation of that group. -- Sources





Corporate reward: $2,500/month to Newt's wife -- Back

According to the Wall Street Journal, a company hired Marianne Gingrich (Newt's then-wife) as an international trade consultant for $2,500 a month plus commissions in September 1994 -- despite her complete lack of experience -- after Newt announced support for a free trade zone in Israel that they are trying to build. (Her previous job had been selling BeautiControl cosmetics from her home.) Marianne's "job" for Israel Export Development Co. was to find tenants for the trade zone. Gingrich's spokesman said that since her job did not involve working with the US government, there was no conflict of interest.

-- Sources



Who Owns Him? -- Back

- Sherman Adelson, a Las Vegas casino owner, and his wife have EACH given $5 million to Newt's SuperPAC just this spring. 2 checks, $10 million. (And another $7 million before that.) By amazing coincidence, Newt's resurgence in the presidential campaign began about 10 minutes after Adelson wrote the first check. Here you have a perfect illustration of what the Citizens United campaign has meant for presidential politics.

Even before the Adelsons dropped their $10 million checks, half ($1 million) of the SuperPAC's donations came from the daughters of Adelson's wife, and one daughter's husband. That's pretty impressive, giving $500,000 or $250,000, especially since the daughters have no job and the son-in-law is a "freelance new media consultant." You shouldn't ASSUME they got their money from Adelson -- but you'd be crazy to rule it out, at the same time.

Adelson created the COMDEX computer trade show, and owns a bunch of convention centers hotels, and big casinos (notably the Venetian in Las Vegas, and another in Macao, China, near Hong Kong). He's worth an estimated $22 billion. Adelson's main political issue is his hard-right pro-Israel stance, supporting aggresive settlements, and opposing any peace deals that involve ANY concessions to the Palestinians. (Sherman is on the executive committee of the lobby group AIPAC and started a free, daily right-wing newspaper in Israel. He reportedly tried to get Condoleeza Rice fired during the Bush Administration because she tried to help negotiate a peace deal with the Palestinians.) Remember Newt's puzzling comment in December 2011 that the Palestinians were an "invented people"? That's Adelson's influence.

Adelson has always wanted to influence political leaders. Jason Chudnofsky, the former CEO at COMDEX, says Adelson told him decades ago that one day, he would be "talking to ministers" and heads of state. According to a lawsuit by a Hong Kong businessman, in 2001 Adelson called several congressmen (including Tom Delay, then House Majority Whip) after China asked him to use his influence in Congress to stop a human rights resolution. (This was 3 years before his huge Macao casino opened, and while Beijing was seeking the summer Olympics.) Adelson admitted calling the congressmen, and the bill was bottled up in committee and died. Adelson denies undermining it, but an employee of his Sands hotel testified that he "relayed a message to the Chinese taking credit for it" according to the New York Times.

You can also expect big support for the casino industry if Newt is elected. As far back as 1998, Newt backed legislation preserving special tax breaks for the industry, and Sherman Adelson threw a big fundraiser at one of his hotels -- hosted by Gingrich -- and donated another $300,000 to the Republican Party.

- Rupert Murdoch (see book deal above)

- Georgia's Richards family, owners of Southwire Corporate ($1.3 billion/year)

The Richardses lent and donated money and office space to Gingrich from his earliest days in politics. They have given over $100,000, and Gingrich was the first recipient of donations from Southwire's PAC. By coincidence, Gingrich has changed from an environmentalist critic of Southwire to a staunch anti-environmentalist during that time. People with ties to Southwire were instrumental in two earlier lucrative book deals of Gingrich's in 1977 and 1984; the latter was investigated for ethical violations. -- Sources









Sources



The Politics of Perception, by Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, October 9, 1995 p 51-65

"Jump-Start: How Speaker Gingrich Grabbed Power and Attention So Quickly", Wall Street Journal, January 19, 1995 pA1

Gingrich’s former firm releases Freddie Mac contract, by Dan Eggen, Washington Post, January 24, 2012

"The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich", Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, September 1995 p147

"Tales About Gingrich make field level", Idaho Spokesman Review, August 16, 1995 pB6

"Gingrich Aided Export Firm That Employed His Wife", NY Times News Service, San Francisco Chronicle, February 7, 1995 pA7

"Gingrich, Critic of 'Business as Usual,' Helps Out Special Interests Like 'Any Member of Congress'", Phil Kuntz, Wall Street Journal, April 3, 1995 pA16





Quote Sources -- Back

Callista quote: The Good Wife: Can Callista Gingrich save her husband?, by Ariel Lev, The New Yorker, January 23, 2012

"Doesn't matter what I do" quote: John H. Richardson, "Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican, " Esquire Magazine, August 10, 2010

lobbying -- January 23, 2012, 11:29 pm Tampa, Fla., Debate Fact-Check by THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Tales About Gingrich make field level", Idaho Spokesman Review, August 16, 1995 pB6

"Newt's Glass House," by Stephen Talbot, Salon.com, August 28, 1998

adulterous choir practice: "Personals", by Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, August 17, 1999 pE12





Adultery -- Back

"Gingrich Won't Answer Woman's Adultery Story," Missoula (Montana) Missoulian, August 16, 1995 page 1

"Doesn't matter what I do" quote: John H. Richardson, "Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican," Esquire Magazine, August 10, 2010

Newly recovered court files cast doubt on Gingrich version of first divorce," by Alan Duke, CNN, December 27, 2011

"Newt's Glass House," by Stephen Talbot, Salon.com, August 28, 1998

"Newt Plays House With New Squeeze," by Timothy Burger and Owen Moritz, NY Daily News, August 12, 1999

"Newt's Fooling Around With His Girl On the Hill," by Andy Soltis, New York Post, August 12, 1999

"The Big One That Got Away," by David Corn, Salon Website, August 12, 1998

adulterous choir practice: "Personals", by Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, August 17, 1999 pE12

Gingrich: Past Adultery ‘Partially Driven By How Passionately I Felt About This Country’ (VIDEO), by Eric Kleefeld, Talking Points Memo, March 9, 2011

Gingrich Seeking To Tweak ‘Marriage Vow’ — From Iowa Conservative Group, by Eric Kleefeld, Talking Points Memo, July 11, 2011 GOPAC Sleaze Sources -- Back

"Gingrich's political education", Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton (NY Times News Service), San Francisco Examiner, February 12, 1995 pA6

"IRS clears Gingrich donation that led to his House censure", Capitol Hill Blue Website, February 4, 1999

Ethics Committee Drops Last of 84 Charges Against Gingrich, By Curt Anderson (Associated Press), Washington Post, October 11, 1998, Page A13

"Use of Tax-Exempt Groups Integral to Political Strategy", by Charles R. Babcock, Washington Post, January 7, 1997, Page A01

"Jump-Start: How Speaker Gingrich Grabbed Power and Attention So Quickly", Wall Street Journal, January 19, 1995 pA1

The Politics of Perception, by Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, October 9, 1995 p 51-65



Lobbyist Sources -- Back

Tampa, Fla., Debate Fact-Check by THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 23, 2012

Gingrich’s former firm releases Freddie Mac contract, by Dan Eggen, Washington Post, January 24, 2012

"Gingrich, Critic of 'Business as Usual,' Helps Out Special Interests Like 'Any Member of Congress'", Phil Kuntz, Wall Street Journal, April 3, 1995 pA16

Murdoch, Joined by Lobbyist, Talked of Regulatory Problem at Meeting With Gingrich, by KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, New York Times, January 15, 1995

Gingrich’s Deep Ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, by ERIC LICHTBLAU, New York Times, February 3, 2012





Dead Beat Dad Sources -- Back

"The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich", Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, September 1995 p147

Newly recovered court files cast doubt on Gingrich version of first divorce," By Alan Duke, CNN, December 27, 2011

The Politics of Perception, by Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, October 9, 1995 p 51-65





Draft Dodger Sources -- Back

$ to Wife Sources -- Back

The Politics of Perception, by Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, October 9, 1995 p 51-78

"Gingrich Aided Export Firm That Employed His Wife", NY Times News Service, San Francisco Chronicle, February 7, 1995 pA7





Wannabe Dictator Sources -- Back

The Politics of Perception, by Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, October 9, 1995 p 51-78





Who Owns Him Sources -- Back

The Man Behind Gingrich’s Money, by MIKE McINTIRE and MICHAEL LUO, New York Times, January 28, 2012

"Newt, Inc.", Dennis Bernstein, Bay Guardian, February 1, 1995 p19

Gingrich, Murdoch Say Book Never Came Up, Associated Press, in San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1995

Murdoch, Joined by Lobbyist, Talked of Regulatory Problem at Meeting With Gingrich, by KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, New York Times, January 15, 1995

A Big Check, and Gingrich Gets a Big Lift, By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and ERIC LIPTON, New York Times, January 9, 2012

Miriam Adelson Donates $5 Million to a Pro-Gingrich ‘Super PAC’, by NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, New York Times, January 23, 2012

"Murdoch, Gingrich Admit They Talked", San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1995

Sheldon Adelson’s Family Members Funded Half Of Newt Super PAC’s 2011 Haul, by Ryan J. Reilly, Talking Points Memo, January 31, 2012





Book Deal Sources -- Back

Aides Say Gingrich Met Murdoch Before Book Deal,By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, New York Times, January 13, 1995

Gingrich, Murdoch Say Book Never Came Up, Associated Press, in San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1995

Murdoch, Joined by Lobbyist, Talked of Regulatory Problem at Meeting With Gingrich, by KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, New York Times, January 15, 1995

"The Mysterious Mrs. Newt", Martin Fletcher (London Times News Service), SF Examiner, January 15, 1995 pA4

"Newt's Near Misses", Ron Curran, The Bay Guardian, January 11, 1995 p10

"Newt, Inc.", Dennis Bernstein, Bay Guardian, February 1, 1995 p19

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