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...seventh-floor State Department aerie, where only his soldier's voice and the ticking of an antique clock broke the solemn silence. At such encounters, his misty ambition was freed. In this fantasy, he was on Capitol Hill putting together a practical budget, making sensible deals with Speaker Tip O'Neill and the Democrats, fashioning legislative maneuvers that made things work rather than standing prettily on ideology. His mind, in these unfettered and rare interludes, was into weapons and food and families and propaganda. His view was as wide as creation. He was playing President, yearning, believing...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Budget Committee Chairman Jim Jones fought hard for a Democratic alternative that contained more money for social programs and less for the military. When that plan failed on a vote of 225 to 202, the Democratic leadership did not try to line up opposition to the Republican plan. The Republican proposal, which calls for spending of $765.2 billion and a deficit of $99.3 billion, was finally passed with the help of 63 Democrats. Explained Democrat Cecil Heftel of Hawaii: "Not because it was a good budget or a fair budget or an accurate...
...hosts, the disclosures were the political equivalent of a tee shot out of bounds for the House Democratic leadership, which has been trying to portray the Reagan Administration as beholden to the country-club set. On two occasions, the Post reported, Rostenkowski's golfing companion was House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The amiable Rostenkowski, who is more comfortable with the ward politics of Chicago than the intricacies of tax legislation, was rarely in Washington the first few months of this year. "We were beginning to wonder," says a colleague, "if he was still a Congressman...
Crimson: What would be the tip-off for people to start thinking that the Reagan Administration wasn't serious, that the proposal that it was offering wasn't negotiable...
When he left the station to return to Harvard, Klingensmith made one "solemn pact" with his friends: he would tell anyone, whenever the subject came up, that they "ought to tip their gas station attendants...Generally, only very kind people--ministers and the like--tip. Even if it's only the change on a dollar, that's fine... If they're very saucy, then there's no reason to. But otherwise, they should be tipped, and tipped generally for their work in the rain...