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Paul Coverdell: “If the Senator will yield. On dozens of editorial pages-- I am quoting-- there were comparisons to the most infamous…”

On the recordJuly 29, 1996
If the Senator will yield. On dozens of editorial pages-- I am quoting-- there were comparisons to the most infamous demon in American history. The Georgia Republican's words, said Newsday, were laced with the kind of innuendo which fueled McCarthy's witch hunt. To Herblock, the Washington Post venerable cartoonist, Gingrich was McCarthy, cruelly blackening reputations with a broad brush. I think there are a lot of people who owe the Speaker an apology. This attack was very harmful to this gentleman, and you alluded to it. There is no way that all of these people in the White House could not have known about the problems they were having in getting White House clearance. I believe they not only owe him an apology, but they owe him an apology at the same level to which they leveled this attack: a public apology from all of them, not just one of them on their behalf.
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Paul Coverdell
Georgia
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Editor's note · Context

Addressing attacks on Speaker Gingrich and calling for public apologies from those who criticized him.

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