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Whatever the outcome, school-prayer advocates now have the aggressive national champion they had long lacked: Ronald Reagan. The President's ardent embrace of their cause has raised cynical eyebrows among Democrats like House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who notes that Reagan is hardly a regular churchgoer. In more than three years as President, Reagan has attended worship services only nine times. Apparently referring to the disruption his attendance at a worship service might cause, Reagan said last week of his churchgoing, "I miss it very much. But I represent too much of a threat to too many...
...Democratic ballots on Tuesday gave Hart more than 37% of their votes vs. not quite 28% for Mondale. Moreover, Hart swept nearly every category of voter; one exit poll found that only those aged 60 or over delivered the expected margins for Mondale. In the judgment of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Mondale backer, Hart has pulled off "probably the biggest upset in Democratic politics since [Eugene] McCarthy went up against Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire in 1968." Says puzzled Pollster Claibourne Darden, whose soundings failed to gauge the extent of the Hart surge in New Hampshire...
...been known to belt out a few bars after belting down a few beers at a pub of an evening, but one morning last week Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, 71, welcomed reporters to his daily press conference with a sober but boisterous-he knows no other way-rendition of Ireland Must Be Heaven for My Mother Came from There. The outburst was by way of confirming his aspiration to retire from Congress early next year so that he can be appointed Ambassador to Ireland. That plan, of course, depends on the election of his choice, Walter...
...March 1982 and floated a whooper. He felt the AFL-CIO should endorse a candidate in 1983, long before the primaries and the conventions, something the federation had never done. Kirkland, its turns out, had been brooding about the idea since 1968 and had had it on the tip of this tongue the day after Ronald Reagan was elected...
...press conference: "I am a little struck by these born-again budget balancers, who for 40 out of the last 44 years have controlled both houses of Congress and who have rel-giously had a policy of deficit spending and never raised their voices about il." Fumed House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "On the campaign trail, the President condemns deficits. Here in Washington, lie defends them...