Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill to break the tie and rescue the President, his fellow Democrat. But O'Neill remained silent, doing nothing. Not only was he deeply committed to the embargo but also he was furious at the Administration for the dismissal of his old friend, Robert T. Griffin, from the General Services Administration. Other Democratic leaders, however, were frantically mobilizing support-for opposite sides. Indiana's John Brademas, the Democratic whip and a leader of the pro-Greek lobby, was fighting to keep the embargo. At this point, he had a lone vote in reserve. Opposing him was Democratic Floor...
What Moore had to tell House Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill two weeks ago was that Carter was going to back Jay Solomon, chief of the scandal-plagued General Services Administration, in the dismissal of the agency's No. 2 Executive, Robert Griffin. An old friend of O'Neill's, Griffin was in no way implicated in the charges of theft and kickbacks at GSA that are currently being investigated. He simply did not get along with Solomon...
...Administration's first mistake was to underestimate O'Neill's sense of propriety. By the time Moore got an appointment to see O'Neill, the decision to dismiss Griffin had already leaked out. When the Speaker asked Moore about the rumors, he replied: "There is going to be a showdown, and the President is going to back Solomon." O'Neill asked specifically whether it was true that Solomon was going to call in Griffin the next day and fire him. "I don't know what you're talking about," Moore said...
...Neill apparently misunderstood Moore's words as meaning that Griffin was not going to be fired. "He said it can't happen," O'Neill later told a friend. "He didn't tell me the truth." When Griffin was indeed fired the next day, O'Neill was deeply outraged. He declared publicly that both he and his friend had been "treated shabbily." As for Moore, O'Neill said, he would no longer be welcome in the Speaker's office-an extraordinary blow to the relations between two branches of Government...
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