American politicians, (L-R) Sen. Howard Baker (Tenn.), Sen. Sam Irvin of (N.C.), Majority Council Sam Dash, Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (Ga.), and Sen. Daniel Inouye (Hawaii), listen to the testimony of James McCord, one of the Watergate burglars, during the Watergate hearings. Gene Forte/Getty Images
The current reports of executive branch illegality make Watergate look like kindergarten mischief.
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Newt Gingrich is an author, commentator, and former Georgia congressman who was the 50th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He ran as a presidential Republican candidate in 2012.