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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (6892)	9/24/1998 5:05:00 PM
From: Borzou Daragahi	Respond to of 13994

"We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.' " Gingrich's ex-lover Speaking of judging the judges, here's an interesting tidbit from a few years ago. God bless Lexis-Nexis. Chicago Tribune August 10, 1995 Thursday, NORTH SPORTS FINAL EDITION SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 12; ZONE: N LENGTH: 415 words HEADLINE: WOMAN SAYS SHE HAD AFFAIR WITH GINGRICH DURING HIS FIRST MARRIAGE BYLINE: From Tribune Wires. DATELINE: NEW YORK BODY: A woman claims she had an affair with House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) during his first marriage, and says she's coming forward now because "he should be stopped before it's too late," Vanity Fair magazine reported. A Gingrich spokesman called the allegations "tabloid psychobabble." Anne Manning, who says she became romantically involved with Gingrich as a married volunteer during his failed 1976 congressional campaign, said he took her to dinner and then came to her hotel room in spring, 1977. *****"We had oral sex," she said in the magazine's September issue. "He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.' "***** Before Gingrich left the hotel, Manning said, he told her, "If you ever tell anybody about this, I'll say you're lying." Gingrich was then an assistant professor at West Georgia College married to his first wife, Jackie, who had been his high school geometry teacher. They divorced in 1980 and Gingrich married his wife, Marianne, six months later. Manning was married to a West Georgia College professor at the time of the alleged affair. Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley issued a broad denial of the article, written by Gail Sheehy, author of the best seller "Passages" and other works. "It's just a bunch of tabloid psychobabble," Blankley said Wednesday in a phone interview. "The subject matter is too low on the food chain to even comment on." Blankley said he and other Gingrich staffers had never heard of Manning, adding that Gingrich hadn't seen the article. The article also quotes Marianne Gingrich as saying she is so opposed to a presidential campaign by her husband that she would go on television and "undermine" it. Manning said she expected Gingrich to deny her story, but she wasn't fully prepared for the media attention it would draw. "My husband has always known. . . . I have warned my children," she said. Reporters tried to get Manning to tell her story before, but she refused: "I didn't want to make life difficult for him or myself." She consented to the Vanity Fair interview because "he may run for president. When he talks about family values and acts righteous about stuff like that, it just gets my back up. I don't like to think of someone who makes up their own rules being head of the country. "I don't claim to be an angel," she said. "He's morally dishonest. He has gone too far believing that 'I'm beyond the law.' He should be stopped before it's too late."