Speaker Newt Gingrich is Chairman of Gingrich 360, a multimedia production and consulting company based in Arlington, Virginia. As former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Gingrich is well known as the architect of the “Contract with America” that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994, creating the first conservative majority in the House in 40 years. He was a Republican candidate for President of the United States in 2012.
Gingrich is a Fox News contributor, podcast host (Newt’s World), and syndicated columnist. He is the author of 40 books, including 18 fiction and nonfiction New York Times bestsellers. His latest books include Trump and the American Future: Solving the Great Problems of Our Time and Shakedown.
Gingrich and his wife, Ambassador Callista L. Gingrich, host and produce historical and public policy documentaries. Recent films include “The First American” and “Divine Mercy: The Canonization of John Paul II.”
Recognized internationally as an expert on world history, military issues, and international affairs, Newt Gingrich is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting course for Major Generals. He also teaches officers from all six services as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at the National Defense University. In addition, Newt Gingrich served as a Member of the Defense Policy Board. He was a member of the Terrorism Task Force for the Council on Foreign Relations, and he co-chaired the Task Force on United Nations Reform, a bipartisan congressional effort to modernize and improve the United Nations.
The Gingrich’s reside in McLean, Virginia, and have two daughters and two grandchildren.
When Newt was 16 living in Orleans, France, he visited the site of the battle of Verdun, a World War I battlefield where 300,000 soldiers died. It was at this moment that he realized that nations can die and be defeated. This was the start of his lifelong pursuit to ensure the survival of America.
Newt graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in history from Emory University in 1965 (after taking 1964 off to assist the campaign of Jack Prince, who challenged Democrat Phil Landrum for Georgia’s 9th Congressional District). Newt later went on to receive a Master’s and Doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University in 1971.
In 1970, Newt began working as an associate professor of geography and history at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia.
In the early party of his Congressional career, Newt quickly climbed his way to the upper echelons of Republicans leadership by refusing to accept that Republicans were destined to be the minority in the House. He quickly began working with President Ronald Reagan to bring about real, positive change in America.
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Newt was re-elected ten more times to serve in Congress, surviving numerous challenges, and Congressional redistricting. A core goal throughout his service was to help Republicans attain and keep the majority in the House of Representatives.
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On September 27, 1994, Newt and more than 350 other Congressional candidates signed the Contract with America on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The Contract was a pledge to all Americans that the signers would vote for 10 popular reforms if Republicans were elected to the House majority. It worked. Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years. It became known as the 1994 Republican Revolution. They immediately began work passing the reforms.
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The success of the Contract with America and the Republican majority earned Newt the honor of serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. As Speaker, Newt was the chief Republican negotiator with the Bill Clinton Administration, bringing about the first balance budgets in our lifetime and the passage of many bipartisan reforms to welfare and government spending.
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In 2012, Newt ran for U.S. president, with a message that focused on balanced budgets, individual liberties, domestic energy production, and reforming big government programs. He won the Republican primaries in South Carolina and Georgia.
During the 2016 Presidential election, Newt was a supporter and strategic advisor to then-candidate Donald Trump. After Trump won the election, Newt has been recognized as a trusted confidant of President Trump and his administration.
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The most important events this week were Joe Biden’s visits to the NAACP and California legislature, where he promised to pay reparations to the ancestors of slaves. This concept of paying for past sins is an impossible task to qualify or administer. It is just a tax on everyday people and a transfer of wealth. Eventually, paying reparations becomes everyone claiming discrimination in some form or another against everyone else. It would become an endless cycle of shifting money.
Audio: The War Against America
When I use the phrase “War Against America,” some might think I’m exaggerating. But look at Seattle, where an ANTIFA group has taken over a set of city blocks and a local police precinct. Look at the reactions of left-wing politicians and media. They are celebrating this as the start of the summer of love. What you’re really seeing are acts of lawlessness and violence. We have to confront this situation as a severe threat against the United States of America and decide if the country will survive as a constitutional republic with the rule of law.
Charity of the Month: Easterseals
The Gingrich Foundation The Gingrich Foundation is proud to announce Easterseals as its June Charity of the Month in recognition of its peerless work in serving people with disabilities throughout the country and helping them live decent, meaningful, and productive lives. Easterseals has worked to improve the lives of those with special needs for more … Read more
