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Former President Jimmy Carter said the adoption of his successor's budget would be "one of the worst economic mistakes our country has ever made." Other Democrats sounded comparatively mild. Rumbled House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "I don't believe the President appreciates the depth of what is going on. Generally, I like the fella. He tells a good Irish story. But he has forgotten his roots. He associates with the country club-style of people." To which Reagan retorted: "Well, I have only played golf once since I have been President, and he is an inveterate...
...House Democrats were badly split over what course of action to take. Many were tempted to sit back and, as an aide to Speaker Tip O'Neill put it, "let the Republicans stew in their own juices." O'Neill has already dismissed the Hollings plan and is pushing his own lieutenants in the House to come up with an alternative. Yet one Democratic leader points out that the Speaker may still be nursing wounds from his humiliating defeat in last year's bruising budget battle. "Tip is afraid to take the lead," he said. "He doesn...
McChrystal and a number of weapons experts, both in and out of uniform, feel that the U.S. ought to take a tip from the Soviets, who allow only a tightly limited number of design changes as they push ahead with a project. Any idea that subsequently conies along is held for the next model. The Soviets generally need about half the time the U.S. needs to get a new tank into service. "The good old U.S. Army," says McChrystal, "is going to put out that IFV with every bit of innovation they can, and it'll be a monster...
More Democrats may be elected to office in 1982 than in 1980, but such success will come from the default of the opposition, not from any bold, well-articulated alternatives to current Administration policies. Tip O'Neill still mumbles and munches...
Corporal John O'Rourke, one of the state police officers co-ordinating the search, said yesterday the search for Webster is continuing with the same intensity as it has been from the onset, and added that police are investigating every tip they receive "no matter how farfetched. "O'Rourke said, "We've received numerous phone calls from clairvoyants and people who think this or that--everything has to be checked...