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Institutional
Affiliations
American
Enterprise Institute: Senior fellow (1, 8)
National
Defense University: Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor
in February 2001 (1), (14)
Council
on Foreign Relations: Terrorism Task Force (1)
Foundation
for the Defense of Democracies: Advisory Board Member (1)
and Distinguished Adviser (15)
American
Enterprise Institute: Senior Fellow (1), (8)
Hoover
Institution (Stanford University): Distinguished Visiting
Fellow (1)
National
Strategic Study Group: Member of the congressionally chartered
National Strategic Study Group (13)
West
Georgia College: Professor of History and Environmental
Studies, 1970-1978 (1), (8), (12)
Committee
for the Liberation of Iraq: Member of the Advisory Board
(19)
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
Defense
Policy Board: Member (1)
United
States Commission on National Security-21st Century (“Hart-Rudman
Commission”): Appointed in 1999 (1), (15)
U.S.
House of Representatives: Speaker, 1995-1999; Member, 1979-1999;
Elected to Congress in 1978 where he served the Sixth District
of Georgia for 20 years (1), (8), (12)
Internet
Policy Institute: Member of the Board of Directors (14)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
NanoBusiness
Alliance: Honorary Chairman (1), (15)
Pricewaterhouse-Coopers:
The Gingrich Group formed a strategic alliance with PW-C (13)
Education
Emory
University: B.A.
Tulane University: M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European
History (13)
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Highlights
& Quotes
Newt
Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House who was the architect
of the notorious “Contract with America,” has been a
mainstay of conservative politics for years. Gingrich left Congress
in 1998, only a few short years after he helped the Republicans
take over the majority in the House for the first time in 40 years.
After he returned to private life, Gingrich remained active in conservative
politics, becoming a fellow at both the American Enterprise Institute
and the Hoover Institution, two of the big guns in the conservative
think tank world. He also founded the Gingrich Group, which according
to his personal Web site is “a communications and consulting
firm that specializes in transformational change.”
With the election
of George W. Bush, Gingrich was tapped to serve on the Pentagon’s
Defense Policy Board, a much maligned think tank for the Defense
Department that is dominated by hardline conservatives and has been
criticized because of the perceived conflicts of interests of its
members, many of whom have strong ties to defense contractors that
could benefit from sensitive information gleaned at policy board
meetings. Gingrich is one of only eight Hoover fellows with seats
on the 31-member board. (21)
Gingrich’s
penchant for sticking his foot in his mouth was demonstrated during
the aftermath of the war in Iraq when he blamed the State Department
and Secretary of State Colin Powell for many of the troubles the
United States is facing in its relations with its allies and for
undermining the foreign policy of the Bush administration. He also
called a planned visit by Powell to Syria “ludicrous,”
despite that fact that Powell was going at the request of President
Bush. When asked about the statement, a Pentagon spokesperson said,
“Plain and simple, Gingrich speaks for Gingrich.” A
former Clinton aide, Paul Begala, remarked, “There's nothing
the Democrats would like more” than to see Gingrich reemerge
in the spotlight. “He's terribly bright, but he's more far
right than he is bright. He's become the embodiment of what most
Americans hate about right wingers.” (3), (4), (5), (6), (7),
(22)
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