November 6, 1998: The Friday started with a standard weekend lineup, featuring the Denzel Washington movie The Siege (about the loss of civil liberties after a series of radical Islamist terrorist attacks, ha ha I know right?) when suddenly....
...Newt Gingrich resigned as Speaker of the House. The serial adulterer, a key figure in the Clinton impeachment process, was succeeded by Dennis Hastert, serial child molester.
[Series note: In the late 1990s, I programmed the content for the AOL.com home page, which relaunched with a new design on July 14, 1998.
I printed screencaps and saved them. 20 years later, I'm scanning them
in and posting them with a little commentary under the tag #20YearsAgoOnAOLcom.]
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