As Gingrich announces presidential run, a look back at his career

The Newt Gingrich Years Washington Week with The Atlantic

Premiered May 10, 2011
The Newt Gingrich Years

With the announcement this week that Republican Newt Gingrich will be running for President in 2010, we look back to his sometimes tumultuous tenure as House Speaker in the 1990's beginning the week of GOP landslide in the mid-term elections of 1994 on the heels of the Contract with America.

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Washington Week with The Atlantic

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