NYT Reports: A virtual lovefest broke out on Fox News Tuesday night as former President Bill Clinton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered respectful praise for each other, neither rising to the bait tossed out by the host, Bill O’Reilly.
Mr. Clinton said he enjoyed working with Mr. Gingrich in the 1990s and that he had good ideas.
In a separate interview that followed, Mr. Gingrich, who is running for president now, called Mr. Clinton “durable” and a serious person and praised him for a “positive post-presidency.”
Mr. O’Reilly had provocatively asked both if they respected each other “as a man.”
“I respect his ability to think and do,” Mr. Clinton said. “And I eventually hammered out a really productive relationship with him.”
Pressed, he added: “I don’t disrespect anybody who works with me in good faith. I think he was way more political than I would have been. He’s defended what he calls ‘scorched earth politics’ and I certainly was the beneficiary of it.”
Asked the same question, Mr. Gingrich compared Mr. Clinton favorably with President Obama, noting that Mr. Clinton had 12 years of experience as a governor before going to the White House, worked effectively with his legislature and had moved his party to the center.
Mr. Clinton had faulted Mr. Gingrich during an earlier interview on NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday morning, saying that he should not be taking all the credit that he is for balancing the budget and overhauling welfare in the 1990s.
“I had a decent working relationship with him,” Mr. Clinton told NBC. But he said Mr. Gingrich had opposed “the vast lion’s share of balancing the budget” and that “90 percent of the budget was balanced before the Balanced Budget Act was ever passed.”
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