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To: Paul Smith who wrote (134567)	3/24/2010 11:28:54 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542839

No. Sounds like Krugman found something that was "too good to check" and ran with it before getting burned. It's a waste of both our times to track this one down but your own piece suggests that the Post and Gingrich disagreed about the quote after it went to press. I made the further inference that the Post originally quoted Gingrich correctly but he didn't like the quote so tried to deny it. It's a fairly typical Gingrich bit. The Paul Krugman column on Monday, about the health care bill, quoted Newt Gingrich as saying that "Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years" by passing civil rights legislation. The quotation originally appeared in The Washington Post, which reported after the column went to press that Mr. Gingrich said it referred to Johnson's Great Society policies, not to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.