Gingrich described himself as "arouser of those who form civilization" These notes and doodles, handwritten by Newt Gingrich, appear in a series of exhibits appended to a report published on Jan. 17, 1997 by the House Select Committee on Ethics. The notes are mainly from the period leading up to his big 1994 victory. The text at left reads: 1. Articulate the vision of civilizing humanity and recivilizing all Americans (TASK 1) 2. Design general planning -- management system and set up quarterly review at a general level (task 2, 9, 10, 11) 3. Build a House republican Team committed to professionalizing the House GOP and to becoming a majority and in particular building a team among the leadership and with our active House member patrons (TASKS, 6) 4. Building a volunteer-staff Team in the 6th Distr. (task 7) 5. Define, plan and begin to organize the movement for civilization and the effort to transform our welfare state into an opportunity society to help people achieve productivity, responsibility, and safety so they can achieve prosperity and freedom so they can pursue happiness (task 3, 5, 8) 6. Diet, exercise, recreational renewal with Marianne (task 9) 7. Begin to plan and develop the intellectual -- educational effort to sustain in the vision of civilizing humanity and recivilizing America (task 4) Couple this with his strangely pro-colonialism view of Belgian action in the Congo and a vaguely disturbing picture begins to emerge of the man. "Civilizing humanity" sounds like its straight out