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Newt
Gingrich
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The
Honorable Speaker
Newt Gingrich
"Revisiting the Republican Revolution:
10 Years of Republican Rule "
October 10, 2005
The Honorable
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
who led the 1994 Republican victory that created the first GOP majority
in Congress in 40 years, spoke on the Furman University campus Wednesday,
Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Younts Conference Center.
His talk,
“Revisiting the Republican Revolution: 10 Years of Republican
Rule,” was sponsored by the Riley Institute at Furman. Over
400 students, faculty, staff, and community members attended the
event.
Gingrich also
participated in a panel discussion after his talk. The panelists
were Dr. Danielle Vinson, an associate professor of political science
at Furman, and Dr. John Pitney, Jr., a professor of government at
Claremont McKenna College in California. Dr. Thomas Kazee, Furman’s
vice president for academic affairs and dean, moderated the discussion.
Gingrich served
as a member of Congress for 20 years and as Speaker of the House
from 1995 to 1999. He is widely recognized as the chief architect
of the Republican “Contract with America,” and was the
key strategist and leader behind the 1994 Republican victory. Under
his leadership, Congress passed welfare reform, the first balanced
budget in a generation and the first tax cuts in 16 years. He was
named Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1995.
Since resigning
from the speakership in 1999, Gingrich founded the Center for Health
Transformation, a collaboration of leaders dedicated to the creation
of a 21st Century Intelligent Health System that saves lives and
money. In addition to serving as a political analyst for FOX News
Network, he is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
in Washington, D.C., and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the
Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Gingrich is
the author of nine books, including the bestsellers, Winning
the Future, Contract with America and To Renew
America. A graduate of Emory University, he earned his master’s
and doctorate degrees in Modern European History from Tulane University.
Before his election to Congress, he taught History and Environmental
Studies at West Georgia College for eight years.
To view the
Greenville News article, click
here; to view the article that appeared in Furman's weekly newspaper,
The Paladin, click
here; to view an article that appeared in the Fall 2005 issue
of Furman magazine, click
here.
For more photos,
click here.
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