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...needed but one. Either we are growing less fond of our leaders, or they are growing further away from us. In any case, it will be a healthy sign for Mr Reagan should the public start calling him Ronnie or even Sweet Eyes. TIME'S congressional correspondent Neil MacNeil recalls that when Mike DiSalle, then mayor of Toledo, escorted ex-King Michael of Yugoslavia in an open-car parade, the citizens called out to the mayor, "Hey, Mike" and "Mike" this and "Mike" that. The King observed to his host that the people didn't seem to treat...
Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington
...What are we seeking to do is to make Congress as much as possible a full partner with the President," Laxalt told TIME'S congressional correspondent, Neil MacNeil. Laxalt would be Reagan's spokesman in Congress, explaining to the leaders of both parties in the House and Senate just what the President's policy is and driving down Pennsylvania Avenue to tell Reagan about the desires and problems of the legislators who must get the Administration's new bills passed. Says Laxalt: "He wants me to be his eyes and ears on the Hill...
...field, TIME correspondents accompanied each of the major candidates as they cast ballots in their home states and settled in to watch the election returns on TV. Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian, Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil and National Political Correspondent John Stacks joined the editors in New York to help analyze voting patterns, while bureaus across the country tracked the balloting in key states and important local contests. More than 30 photographers were assigned to cover the candidates and to capture America in the process of selecting a President. Chartered jets were used to fly their film to New York...
...Republican Party in those days was not entirely speechless either. Connoisseurs of the genre remember the sublimely fogbound organ tones of Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen. In his early career, writes Biographer Neil MacNeil, Dirksen "bellowed his speeches in a mongrel mix of grand opera and hog calling." Over the years, he developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr. Would he criticize an erring colleague? someone would ask. "I shall invoke upon him every condign imprecation...