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  Newt Gingrich: Bill Clinton’s State of the Union ‘resignation’
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Last EditedBrandonius Maximus  Feb 13, 2013 02:04pm
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AuthorKATIE GLUECK
News DateWednesday, February 13, 2013 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionNewt Gingrich on Tuesday night reminisced about his first State of the Union as Speaker of the House, saying with a laugh that President Bill Clinton jokingly offered a letter of resignation before quickly pulling it back.

“The first time he walked in and he handed me this envelope [containing the speech], and I opened it up and it said, ‘I resign, William Jefferson Clinton,’” Gingrich said with a smile on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.” ” And he said, ‘Oh, no, I wasn’t supposed to give you that, give it back to me,’ and that was the opening of the first State of the Union I did as Speaker of the House.”

Gingrich told the story of what happened in 1995 to illustrate his point that “Clinton was a totally different character. Clinton was fun.”
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