2012 - as an election year - provided plenty of top stories; this was especially true in the spring - while there still were numerous arguably-credible contenders for the Republican nomination.
As I had developed a source in the county Republican organization two years earlier - when the Tea Party was becoming big - I had an edge on covering the 2012 Republican contenders. I learned that Newt Gingrich would be the keynote speaker at an April 14 “Tax Day” rally of the Tea Party in Greensboro, N.C.
Newt Gingrich spoke (below) - complete with the Secret Service detail then the only hint that his then-dying candidacy still was a presidential candidacy. For their part, the two Secret Service agents provided a photo opportunity - as it also was the height of a Secret Service scandal then in the news.
As for the rally, attendance was noticeably smaller than in past years for the same event. But it also provided opportunities for covering what was - after all - another normal Tea Party rally, and a small girl protesting Obamacare (below) provided the photo of mine that ran in Scandinavian newsmagazine Illustreret Videnskab Historie.

Gingrich’s campaign would soon end - and I’d soon enough be covering the winning Republican contender’s campaign: Mitt Romney.