Newt and I and W

Abstract

I first met Newt Gingrich when he was still teaching history at Georgia Western University. He and I were involved in the activities of the Committee for Anticipatory Democracy that Alvin Toffler created in the mid 1970s. Then for several years after he was first elected to Congress as a Republican from Georgia in 1978—and being a Republican in Georgia was unthinkable at the time—I would visit with Newt whenever I was in Washington, and it was mutually convenient.