Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich (born 6/17/1943) is a conservative politician. Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives, and is generally credited with being the mastermind of the morality-based Republican Revolution of 1994. Gingrich's accomplishments include a number of showdowns with President Bill Clinton. In one case, Gingrich called Clinton's bluff and shut down the federal government rather than give into Clinton's demands for tax increases. Gingrich also held Clinton's feet to the fire during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, while expertly avoiding criticism for his own marital infidelities Media:http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/09/gingrich.schneider/index.html.

Newt Gingrich was forced out of the Republican leadership as a result of the poor Republican performance in the 1998 off-year election, the only mid-term election in a president's second term in the last 60 years where the opposition party failed to gain seats until 2006.

The conservative politician is now thought to be positioning himself for the 2008 presidential race.

Newt Gingrich has publicly admitted to having been engaged in an extra-marital sexual relationship during the period he was pushing for Clinton's impeachment.