Word: neill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election, the Reagan campaign launched a $5 million dollar television advertising blitz aimed at discrediting liberals. A bloated, white-haired, red-faced politician--an obvious caricature of then-Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill--was shown trying to drive a sputtering jalopy running out of gas. In 1984, the Republicans successfully added the "tax-and-spend label" to the Democratic image, and liberals began to call themselves "neo-liberals" and "progressives...
Cambridge political lore is rich with stories about former Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, and one of the favorites describes the elderly woman who didn't vote on election day. When O'Neill asked her why, she told him, "People like to be asked, dear...
Harvard Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline C. O'Neill opposed Walsh's concern over housing prices, however, and said, "Rents are fair at Peabody Terrace. The illusion from the outside that Peabody Terrace should be rented out to our tenants at luxury rates is wrong...
...chair of the Republican National Committee. And neither is as offensive to democratic values as the Kennedy family's pocket borough of Massachusetts, where a congressional seat may be thoughtfully lent out until a Kennedy is old enough to claim it. ("When Jack became President," writes Tip O'Neill, "his Senate seat was kept warm by Ben Smith, Jack's old Harvard roommate" until "Teddy turned thirty," the minimum age for a Senator.) Nepotism has become so ingrained in American politics that it is no longer recognized as a vice...
...Kennedy's] almost taking this election for granted," Malone said. "Even Tip O'Neill says you can't take voters for granted--you have to ask them for your support...