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...subsequent White House breakfast meeting the next day, House Speaker Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill reminded Carter that the Democratic Party had historically been the "champion of the poor and the indigent." There are 12 million people still on welfare, said O'Neill, 7 million of them children. There was no consensus among Democrats on the Hill to cut back existing programs or give up new ones. "I can read this Congress," he told Carter. "If there is no move to serve those who need compassion, we'll run into a bag of troubles." Carter replied that...
...flowers were so nice and pretty and yellow, I wanted to take them all and give them to my mother," a pedestrian said yesterday, adding, "I think they were tulips but the men weren't exactly tip-toeing through them...
...bitch." Said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "The solution requires the best that is in us. This is a supreme test and it requires a supreme effort. Yet I think there's a reservoir of courage and strength and patriotism here that will respond." House Democratic Leader Tip O'Neill readily concurred, declaring that passage of the President's package will involve "the toughest fight this Congress has ever...
...HOUSE: Carter's staunchest congressional ally is the most powerful: Speaker Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill. From the start, O'Neill has feared that conflicting regional interests in Congress could ruin the overall plan by bargaining on individual points. Warned O'Neill: "The only way we can write a national bill is if they don't team up. If they logroll you, you're in trouble...
...detailed that Lewis can easily answer a random question on the length of curtains in Georgian homes. Would Walpole approve? "Oh, yes, terribly," Lewis smiles. The richly furnished estate, plus the collection, will become, on Lewis' death, Yale at Farmington. It is meant, says Lewis, for "the tip-top people in the period. I want wizards...