Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Older Brother Neil, 71, a retired advertising executive now living near San Diego. He has never caused any political embarrassment for Ronald...
...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...
...midweek drama flared over the vice presidential selection. Washington-based Correspondent Walter Isaacson was one of the first journalists to learn of the Bush-for-Ford switch, from a friendly Reagan aide. Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan swiftly redeployed his forces, including Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian, Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, Senior Correspondent Laurence Barrett and National Political Correspondent John Stacks. A series of TIME breakfasts and lunches with ranking Republicans had provided an informed commentary on the dynamics of the convention, and the questions did not always come from the press side of the table. When the subject...
...unique ticket composed of a once and a (possibly) future President were political drama of the highest order. How the effort to get Ford to run with Reagan began and ballooned and why it finally burst is told in this story reported by TIME Correspondents Robert Ajemian, Laurence Barrett, Neil MacNeil and Hugh Sidey...
...realize that cooperation is in their best interests. In addition to announcing the relief measures laid out last week, the President said he would appoint a committee of Government, company and union officials to tackle the industry's long-term problems. It will probably consist of Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt, Commerce Secretary Philip Klutznick, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, the heads of the five U.S. auto companies, and U.A.W. officials. By next week each member is to prepare a list of five priorities for action. The Government will draft its own list of emergency steps. Said Goldschmidt: "There...