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Democrats were understandably skeptical about Reagan's transformation. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "Reagan has built a wall around them and thrown brickbats. Now he wants to reach through a crack in the wall and extend the hand of fellowship." Reagan's likely Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, has long pledged to make unconditional talks with Kremlin leaders his first priority after Inauguration Day. He derided Reagan's motives: "I intend to be a President who will lead us toward a safer world from the first day I'm in office, and not from...
...Kerry has strong liberal credentials, and is best known as a Vietnam War hero who led the anti-war movement upon his return, Shannon, a protege of House speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. Jr. (D-Cambridge), also has a strong liberal record in congress--he received a 96 percent liberal rating form the National Journal...
Walter Mondale wanted to look tough. Gary Hart sought to suggest the ferment of new ideas. Ronald Reagan came along, in a soft-spoken way, because he had money to burn. Even House Republicans entered the act to protest the partisanship of House Speaker Tip O'Neill. As the primary campaign reached its final week and seemingly every conceivable thought had been uttered, politicians aplenty inundated the air waves with new, improved and, in some cases, conspicuously nasty commercials...
...dream of success that American pop culture has to offer: the performer as outlaw, the outlaw as sha man; self-immolation as the fulfillment of a creative spirit that burns too hot to contain or understand; drugs as recreation, revelation and social challenge, a turn-on for talent, a tip sheet for personal apocalypse. He died, really, of the cumulative effects not only of the cocaine and heroin that had swollen his brain and bloated his heart but of all these bad dreams...
...Aplomb took her from teaching school to learning law, from an assistant prosecutor's job to a prominent position in Congress. It could, if the timing and political climate were precisely right, put her on the Democratic ticket in July. No less a figure than House Speaker Tip O'Neill is touting her vice-presidential chances. "Sure, I have a candidate," he told reporters. "Her name is Geraldine Ferraro...