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Newt Gingrich on the issues: Then and now

Globe Staff

  December 06, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, surging in recent polls, often presents himself as an elder statesman of conservatism. But a closer look a the former House speaker’s record reveals not a staunchly right-wing past, but rather a vacillation on many issues.

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