Gingrich offering to give lectures at $50,000 each

Newt Gingrich, the soon-to-be-former speaker of the House, is offering his services on the lecture circuit for a reported $50,000 per appearance.

The Washington Speakers Bureau is promoting Gingrich, R-Ga., and calls him "one of the most talked-about figures in American public life."But his pearls of wisdom will cost $50,000, plus three first-class airplane tickets, according to an executive from a trade association quoted anonymously in Friday's Washington Post.

"In addition to his speech, Mr. Gingrich, a man of ideas, is willing to meet for one hour - either in Atlanta or once on site - to exchange views with your CEO, organization president or board of directors," said a memo faxed from the speakers' bureau to corporations and trade associations.