Gingrich Shut Down the Government in a Tantrum 23 Years Ago
And American politics have never been the same.
by Todd S. Purdum
Dec 21, 2018
2 minutes
I’ve had it in my desk drawer for 23 years: a pink plastic pacifier, tucked into a piece of glossy card stock, with a cartoon of a diaper-clad Newt Gingrich brandishing a baby bottle and stomping his foot, and the caption, It’s a treasured artifact
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