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Hillary, Newt Team for Alzheimer's Research
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Newt Gingrich, an erstwhile odd couple on health care issues, reunited briefly Tuesday to promote Alzheimer's research. They appeared at a Capitol Hill news conference to announce a new study group headed by Gingrich, the Republican former House Speaker, and former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey, now president of the New School. Clinton, a New York senator, arrived late, walking past others at the podium to stand beside Gingrich. She whispered in his ear, and both laughed. When she spoke, she joked about "President Kerrey," then teased about Gingrich: "I'm sure he's president of something as well."
Story Continues Below Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination; Gingrich has said he is weighing a bid for the GOP nomination and will make a decision after September. Speaking after Clinton left, Gingrich predicted there will be four to seven times as much new science on Alzheimer's over the next 25 years. Gingrich said the coming advances will help the country move from "lab testing to implementation to accelerated conversion of knowledge into new cures and solutions." He has a connection to Alzheimer's research through his think tank, the Center for Health Transformation, which gets funding from Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems, sister company of Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical.
Kerrey, a Nebraskan who ran for presidency in 1992, when Bill Clinton won the nomination, said he can already predict the findings of the study group, which will report to Congress next year.
"The conclusions are going to be somewhere in the category of, 'We need to do more,' and, 'We need to do it differently,'" Kerrey said.
© 2007 Associated Press.
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