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...Neill is a gregarious, backslapping, poker-playing Boston Irish politician out of a renowned tradition (see box), a great, shaggy bear of a man (6 ft. 2 in., 268 lbs.) who is equally at home bellowing Irish ditties or talking history with Harvard professors...
...Neill was also invited to take part in another congressional rite reserved for the elite-the late-night poker games involving some of the top leaders on the Hill. O'Neill more than held his own; he had helped earn his way through Boston College by playing poker. In one night of good hands, recalls O'Neill, a man could win $400. "Nobody ever got hurt," says O'Neill...
Reforming Pol. At the card table O'Neill met and for a while became friends with another poker player of repute-Richard Nixon, then the Vice President. But for all Nixon's reputation -he had won a bundle in the Navy during the war-O'Neill found him lacking. "Nixon was one of the lousiest players I ever played with," Tip remembers. "He didn't follow the cards. He talked too much. But he was an affable and likable guy in that friendly atmosphere, and the other players were nice to him because he was Vice...
...clothes tailored with equally elegant understatement. But Bohlen, who was reared in Aiken, S.C., and Ipswich, Mass., as the son of a modestly wealthy family, was also an engagingly informal man who propped his feet on his desk, spilled pipe tobacco on carpets, and organized late-night poker parties...
What better barge on which to ride out male climacteric than McGee's houseboat Busted Flush (won in a poker game), with its pasha's bed, four-nozzle shower, 1,100-mile range and capacious tanks full of nostalgia and contempt? This time MacDonald gives McGee and his brainy friend Meyer (a retired financier who lives aboard the good ship John Maynard Keynes) some fine autumnal soliloquies...