Newt!, by Dick Williams: on Government Reform

Newt Gingrich: Wrote "Contract with America" as conservative platform

The Contract With America propelled the Republicans to victory and Gingrich into the Speaker's office, but it was, after all, just another political platform. The Contract by itself still would be gathering dust were it not for the political machine that marketed it through 230 winning candidates. In 1994, Gingrich supplied not only the language of victory, he wrote the description of the problem, commissioned the solutions, recruited the candidates, and campaigned until hoarse from them. For the Republican candidate in need of support, Gingrich was hard to avoid.