Originally Posted by cpal_747

"He walked out in the spring of 1980.... By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, "Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?" When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my cancer surgery." -
Jackie, Newt's first wife.

Although like any good republican he preaches family values, in fact he's had a couple of different families and each time he divorces, it just gets messier.