50 YEARS - 1986: NEWS BRIEF - Wyche Fowler Debates Newt Gingrich

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By Steve Humphrey Saturday November 15, 1986 04:00 AM EST

[Wyche] Fowler showed that, unlike [Crandle] Bray, he was not tongue-tied by the fast-talking [Newt] Gingrich. When Gingrich attempted to get on Fowler’s radio call-in show, Fowler refused to speak with Gingrich. Fowler said that Mack Mattingly had been invited to appear on the show, and that he would debate “the organ-grinder, not the monkey.”