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...this week's cover story, TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil filed more than 100 pages of background on House Majority Leader Thomas (Tip') O'Neill, whom he has known for almost 15 years. But for the story there was still plenty for MacNeil to learn. He spent nine days in Boston and Cambridge, talking with O'Neill's wife, children, sister, friends and aides. Early one morning he accompanied the Congressman on one of his "ethnic walks" as he stopped and chatted with the shopkeepers through whom he keeps in touch with his district...
...evaluate the current mood of the House on the difficult question of impeachment, MacNeil spent nearly ten days on Capitol Hill, talking not only with House leaders but also with dozens of rank-and-file Congressmen of both parties. After he had put his material together, he checked some last-minute details with O'Neill and learned a bit of bad news: despite his diet, the Massachusetts Congressman confessed, he gained two pounds during the time he had spent lunching and dining with MacNeil...
...student of Congress since his days as a Harvard undergraduate and author of a book about the House of Representatives (Forge of Democracy, 1963), MacNeil covered Capitol Hill for United Press for eight years before joining TIME in 1958. To supplement his reporting, MacNeil reread accounts of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in his personal congressional library of 6,000 volumes - no fewer than 65 of them deal with impeachment - that he has painstakingly collected over the years. "But there is no substitute for eyeball-to-eyeball discussion," he says. "If you try to guess what...
Recently TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil followed Congressman O'Neill as he took what he calls his "ethnic walk" through home-town Cambridge, sampling opinion while simultaneously wooing votes. As he has every Saturday for years, he stopped at his Chinese laundryman's to pick up the shirts that his wife Millie had left earlier in the week, visited his Italian shoemaker, his barber, and half a dozen other shopkeepers...