Word: tip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What is the Administration proposal?" House Speaker Tip O'Neill inquired somewhat rhetorically last week...
What Moore had to tell House Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill two weeks ago was that Carter was going to back Jay Solomon, chief of the scandal-plagued General Services Administration, in the dismissal of the agency's No. 2 Executive, Robert Griffin. An old friend of O'Neill's, Griffin was in no way implicated in the charges of theft and kickbacks at GSA that are currently being investigated. He simply did not get along with Solomon...
Nobody seemed to know exactly what Griffin was supposed to do-"a little of everything," said Strauss-but it was obvious that, with his congressional connections, he could be useful in lobbying. Tip O'Neill seemed partially mollified. "The performance between the Administration and the Speaker's office is on the same course as it has always been," he said...
...ignores a tip...
Coming as they did on the heels of Israel's much appreciated intelligence tip to Egypt, Dayan's proposals may well have persuaded Sadat that a dramatic trip to Jerusalem could bring a quick end to the 30-year Middle East impasse...