OVER A BANANA-AND-DIET-COKE BREAKFAST, SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH MET with TIME editors and correspondents last week. His office is decorated with mementos, including a handwritten note by Ulysses S. Grant. It says, "I propose to fight on this line all summer if necessary."
TIME: You are coming to the end of your first 100 days. What do you think you might have learned from this process?
GINGRICH: As Wellington said after Waterloo, this is a close-run thing. We've had five or six near-death experiences, and we're now going to see if we can pass the tax bill. I think, in part, the...
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