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66Whitewater: A Tempest in a Teapot
When the word "Whitewater" entered my vocabulary, I greeted it with incredulity. How could the Clintons, I wondered, be accused of wrongdoing connected with the Savings & Loan scandal? After all, the S&L debacle was a product of the Reagan Administration.
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54The Case Against Newt Gingrich
Rep. Newt Gingrich drove Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Wright out of office in disgrace over a book deal. A few years later, the right-wing Republican attack dog suffered the same fate as his victim over his own book deal.
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53Did the Voters Buy a GOP Pig in a Poke?
Newt Gingrich, the freewheeling loose cannon who was elected Speaker of the House in 1995, used his position to lord it over the Democrats by bulldozing his so-called "Contract With America" through the lower legislative body of Congress. In the end, it failed.
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