Word: neill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragedy of this kind. So, yes, one will continue." Leaders on Capitol Hill, however, immediately sensed the incongruity of an upbeat national address at such a time. House Republican Leader Robert Michel telephoned Chief of Staff Donald Regan to urge a delay. Regan phoned House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. Both strongly advised a postponement, and the White House agreed. Spokesman Larry Speakes announced that the address would wait a week, until this Tuesday...
...Capitol Hill, Speaker O'Neill recessed the House and, shaking his head, could only mutter, "Terrible thing. Terrible thing." He issued a statement expressing his awe of the space pioneers: "We salute those who died performing exploits that people my age grew up reading about in comic books...
...football captains, meeting to shake hands before the kickoff, tackled each other instead. Congressional leaders had come down to the White House last week to talk over the year ahead on Capitol Hill, when the two principal players, President Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, began sniping across the deep ideological divide between them. After the Republican President seemed to imply that some people were jobless simply because they were lazy, the Democratic Speaker exploded. He charged that Reagan's economic notions are a "bunch of baloney" that might "go over big at the country club" but not with...
Appearing together for the first time, 11 candidates for the Congressional seat of retiring Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill yesterday faced off in a forum on social and economic policy...
...latest proposal] puts new and different controls on the Harvard Square area that still make development possible, but in the context of trying to preserve what is good about Harvard Square," O'Neill said yesterday...