It's 1:00 AM, Do You Know Where Newt Is?

[kpete]

It's 1:00 AM, Do You Know Where Newt Is?

— By David Corn
| Wed May. 11, 2011 8:22 AM PDT

To wit: this morning, as news of Gingrich's pending announcement spread, a fellow I know sent the below email.




A long time ago in a place far, far, away I was a military escort officer at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), assigned to meet, brief, escort, and coordinate the visit of then-Speaker of the House Gingrich and a (congressional) leadership CODEL of some 6 others and spouses in Europe. Bosnia was the "Iraq" of the day and that was one of the focused points of interest. We based out of Rome with day trips to various US military Headquarters in Europe and "down range" trips to several of the bases in Bosnia….Also on the trip were Bob and Bonnie Livingston. In that it was a "Leadership" trip, the chairs of several committees were also along. And the wives were traveling in number as well…

After a day trip and audience with the Pope, the entire group returned to the hotel, and I placed myself in the hospitality room to be available for questions about the rest of the trip. Around 11 PM Gingrich came in and started to shoot the bull. We talked mostly about military readiness, the lack of spare parts (a huge issue in those years), the strain of Bosnia on the deployed forces (nothing compared to today) and general stuff. He called it a night about 1 AM and I closed up shop long with some of the other military personnel.

The next morning the traveling Marine pulled me aside to rip me a new backside for keeping the Speaker up until 4 AM. I told him 4 AM was bunk, that he was in bed at 1, and it was his choice to stay up and talk not mine. Turns out that Marianne Gingrich had found the Marine escort and chewed him out for the Speaker not coming to bed until 4 AM. Seems there were three missing hours...And now for the rest of the story...Also on the trip and traveling as staff was…Gingrich's current wife, presidential spouse aspirant and then congressional staffer Callista. Seems that the then-Speaker scheduled himself a traveling "storm in any port." I never discussed it with him but only after the fact did I fully realize what was going on. None of us knew what would be public information later on…That was also the trip that I spilled an entire bottle of red wine on Gephardt, but that's another story.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/its-100-am-do-you-know-where-newt

[msongs]

1. out comitting adultery again? nt

[underpants]

2. Papa Bush's "Jennifer at the State Department"

there was a woman who just always seemed to be anywhere that Poppa Bush went. Supposedly he was warned that he had to give it up if he ever wanted to be President. W was asked what he and his father discussed on the golf course and W said, "P^$$y".

[mmonk]

3. Mine's right

here