Acording to Newt, he is the one who wanted and asked for the divorce:
Brian Begley
: 11/29/11 14:50
That story wasn’t just made up. His ex-wife told it to a magazine and a newspaper separately (Mother Jones and the Washington Post). If I had to guess whether the wife got the story right 6 years later, or the next week or the daughter got it right 30 years later, I’d probably go with the wife.
Her quote to the Post:
“He can say that we had been talking about [a divorce] for 10 years, but the truth is that it came as a complete surprise,” says Jackie Gingrich, in a telephone interview from Carrollton. “He’s a great wordsmith … He walked out in the spring of 1980 and I returned to Georgia. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said Daddy is downstairs and could he come up? When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from the surgery … To say I gave up a lot for the marriage is the understatement of the year.”
Then there’s this quote from Gingrich:
Asked if, in fact, he handled the divorce as insensitively as portrayed, Gingrich responded: “All I can say is when you’ve been talking about divorce for 11 years and you’ve gone to a marriage counselor, and the other person doesn’t want the divorce, I’m not sure there is any sensitive way to handle it.”
That doesn’t sound like she requested the divorce.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/284360/cancer-hospital-story-mona-charen?page=1
From the daughter own mouth,
My Father, Newt Gingrich (Jackie Cushman discusses her mother, the divorce, and her father)
National Review | 12/13/2011 | Robert Costa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2819908/posts
She states that the media took everything out of context.
I am sure you are looking for the Truth as I am.
Can’t trust the media..
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I’m getting some heat for mentioning Newt’s hospital visit to his ailing first wife, divorce papers in tow. A number of less than careful readers have accused me recycling a false story that Newt presented those papers to a wife who was dying of cancer. I didn’t say that.
This is from the site YOU posted...
the corner...