Newt Gingrich: An Enigmatic Portrait

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Once an active environmental protectionist, House Speaker Newt Gingrich is better known these days as an advocate of environmental deregulation. Reporter Terry FitzPatrick provides this portrait of Newt’s green contradictions. Come spend the speaker’s 53rd birthday at the Atlanta zoo.

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