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By Newt Gingrich When I reread Theodore White’s Making of the President 1972, the biggest surprise was not political, it was in policy. To a degree, I wasn’t ready for how White captures the absolute failure of Lyndon Johnson’s...

By Newt Gingrich The 2020 election is a continuation of a conflict about the nature of America which began in the 1960s. The first clear and vivid political collision of that conflict was in 1972. Because Theodore White’s Making...

The most amazing thing about Theodore White’s The Making of the President 1972 is his explanation of the emerging hostility of the elite news media and its evolution into an adversarial anti-president propaganda system...

If you want to get a feel for the probable shape of 2020, there is no single book that will help more than Theodore H. White’s The Making of the President 1972.

The 30th anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square is a good time to face the truth about the Chinese communist totalitarian dictatorship. The real lesson is one almost no one wants to think about.

This is a week of historic liberation dates.

By Newt Gingrich On March 19, 1979, C-SPAN began its first broadcast of the United States House of Representatives. The first on-camera speaker was then Representative Al Gore of Tennessee. It was a tremendous breakthrough in allowing citizens to...

When The New York Times printed a wildly false headline asserting that President Trump was possibly a Russian agent, I was furious. However, I was also reminded of another time in our nation’s history in which the...

As we take time to honor and remember the life and work of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. – whose efforts changed our nation for the better and helped end bigoted, exclusionary policies against African Americans – we should...