Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (50 page)

“Wake up, Mr. President!”
:
United Press International,
August 4, 1982.

“More than 200 members”
: Associated Press, August 4, 1982.

“Every time I ask”
: TPO, August 13, 1982.

“tax bill”
: RR, June 22, July 19, August 2, and August 4, 1982.

“I want him to use that smiling countenance”
: TPO, July 29, 1982.

“Senator Dole has shown”
: Ibid., August 3, 1982.

“The Republicans are not for”
: Ibid., July 28, 1982.

“Met with Jack Kemp”
: RR, August 4, 1982.

“There is a rumor”
: Ibid., August 10, 1982.

“Some of the people”
: TPO, August 17, 1982.

“The tax bill will not repeal”
: Ibid., August 18, 1982.

“Congress cannot with one vote”
: Ibid., August 18, 1982.

“Interesting photo opportunity”
: RR, August 18, 1982.

“Nancy wasn’t alone”
: Ibid., August 19, 1982.

“Did you hear that the Irish”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 589.

“bipartisanship can be fun”
:
Washington Post,
August 24, 1982.

“It happened last Thursday”
: Ibid.

“You are here because of Reagan”
: Ibid.

“If he could put aside”
: Ibid.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
: TIP AT THE TOP

twelve seats
: TPO, statement from November 2, and attached Democratic Policy Committee one-sheet from October 26, 1982.

“political tactic”
: Ibid., September 9, 1982.

“The president would rather”
: Ibid.

“The politics of the veto”
: Ibid., Letter from Democratic Leadership, September 8, 1982.

“prize bull”
:
New York Times,
September 10, 1982.

“billion-dollar ballot box bailout bill”
: Ibid., September 17, 1982.

“Voters across America”
: Reagan Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters Following the House of Representatives Vote on the Proposed Constitutional Amendment for a Balanced Federal Budget, October 1, 1982.

“stonewalling”
: Ibid.

“boosted the stock”
:
Washington Post,
October 2, 1982.

“Somebody told me”
: Reagan Remarks, Rally for Texas Republican Candidates in Irving, Texas, October 11, 1982.

“In Washington, the nine heavenly bodies”
:
United Press International,
October 29, 1982.

“Your heart would die for them”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 594.

“tell them that Tip O’Neill”
: Ibid.

Franklin Roosevelt
: Reagan Radio Address to the Nation on the Economy, October 16, 1982.

“fear”
: Reagan Radio Address to the Nation on Economic and Budget Issues, October 23, 1982.

“Democrats took the offensive”
:
Washington Post,
October 24, 1982.

REAGAN AND O’NEILL EXCHANGE CHARGES
:
New York Times,
October 24, 1982.

“Not long ago”
: Associated Press, October 29, 1982.

GOP fund-raising letter
: TPO Press Collection.

“big, fat and out of control”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 595.

pin a
repeal o’neill
campaign button
:
Washington Post,
November 4, 1982.

“I wouldn’t know him from a cord of wood”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 595.

“For a while there”
: Interview with Robert Mrazek, originally for
Hardball
book.

“We don’t want anyone to eat crow”
: TPO, November 3, 1982.

“They are an odd couple”
:
New York Times,
November 28, 1982.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
: DEAL

“If we are truly”
:
U.S. News & World Report,
December 27, 1982.

“The old-age trust fund”
:
Washington Post,
November 7, 1982.

“Administration sources have suggested”
: Ibid., January 3, 1983.

Back in December
: TPO, December 7, 1982.

“Reagan’s Faithful Allies”
:
New York Times,
January 3, 1983.

“Are we going to let this commission die”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 601.

“He didn’t make a move that”
: Conversation with Jack Lew.

“the same old political football”
:
New York Times,
January 6, 1983.

“I’m not going to make choices”
: Ibid., January 16, 1983.

“Reagan’s wariness of Social Security”
: Ibid.

“We weren’t going to put our head”
: Jack Beatty, ed.,
Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan
(New York: Public Affairs, 2004), p. 445.

“It is my understanding”
: Reagan statement on receiving the recommendations
of the National Commission on Social Security Reform, January 15, 1983.

“acceptable to the president”
: TPO, January 15, 1983.

“S.S. team came by”
: RR, January 15, 1983.

“It was very helpful to have”
:
New York Times,
January 19, 2010.

“More than any other event”
: Robert Ball, “Restoring Financial Stability to Social Security,”
www.ssa.gov/history/50rb.html
.

“all together”
: RR, January 17, 1983.

“we in government”
: Reagan Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, January 25, 1983.

“And here all the time”
: Ibid.

“But you understand”
: Reagan Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues, February 4, 1983.

“Oh, you’ve sold out”
: Ibid.

“He spoke of creating jobs”
: TPO, January 26, 1983.

“I will probably kick myself”
:
Washington Post,
January 27, 1983.

“On the same day”
:
Newsweek,
February 7, 1983.

“Well, I said”
: Ibid.

“God damn it, Tip”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
pp. 599–600.

“Tip & I”
: RR, January 31, 1983.

“the toughest going-over”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
pp. 599–600.

“just two Irishmen plotting”
:
Time,
February 21, 1983.

“Whether this means a ray of hope”
: TPO, January 31, 1983.

“We stand ready”
: Ibid., February 8, 1983.

“I understand he’s getting married”
: Ibid., February 10, 1983.

“When I met with President Reagan”
: Ibid.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
: LEBANON AND GRENADA

“What I am”
: Reagan address to British Parliament, June 8, 1982.

It had actually been
: Arthur Vandenberg speech to the Senate, January 10, 1945.

“Why are we there?”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 612.

Two days later
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. 356.

“If he asks my views”
: TPO, July 13, 1982.

As Tip O’Neill put it
: Ibid., September 12, 1983.

“That country is coming apart”
: Author witnessed Rep. Foley’s remark.

“If it were for six months”
: TPO, September 20, 1983.

“I believe the president”
:
Washington Post,
September 29, 1983.

It was Democratic congressman
: Ibid.

“He was grateful”
: TPO, September 29, 1983.

“I was doing my duty”
: Ibid.

“The important thing”
:
New York Times,
October 13, 1983.

“I’ve OK’d an outright”
: RR, October 21, 1983.

On Sunday
: Ibid., Saturday, October 22–Sunday, October 23.

The FBI described
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. 386.

“He spoke of an agreement”
:
MOH,
p. 363.

“Phoned Tip & Howard”
: RR, October 24, 1983.

Author interview with Ken Duberstein
.

“I am bitterly disappointed”
: TPO, October 25, 1983.

“The resolution would be”
: TPO, October 26, 1983.

“The people of America”
: Ibid.

“I will have plenty”
: Ibid.

“The question I asked”
: Ibid., October 28, 1983.

“He broke international”
: Ibid.

“Nobody wants to cut”
: Ibid.

“Today I feel even more”
: MOH, pp. 366–67.

The Speaker was
:
New York Times,
November 1, 1983.

“Dropped in for a minute”
: RR, January 25, 1984.

“We took up the business”
: Ibid., January 26, 1984.

“I gave a little lecture”
: Ibid., January 27, 1984.

“Campaign time is coming”
: Ibid.

“One night, at a social”
:
MOH,
p. 364.

“Aiding and abetting”
:
New York Times,
February 3, 1984.

“He may be ready to”
:
Wall Street Journal,
February 16, 1984.

“The deaths lie on him”
:
New York Times,
April 6, 1984.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
: VICTORY AND SURVIVAL

“I don’t need you”
: Farrell, p. 507.

In February 1984
:
New York Times,
February 29, 1984.

“See what happens”
: TPO, March 1, 1984.

“My wife said to me”
: Ibid.

Nevertheless he called
:
MOH,
p. 372.

His son Michael
:
Dutch,
p. 318.

In March 1984
:
New Republic,
March 26, 1984.

“We threw up a partition”
: Matthews,
Hardball,
p. 170.

“I think it will go”
: TPO, March 14, 1984.

“We have the Boston Marathon”
: Ibid., February 29, 1984.

“Well, he still calls me”
: Ibid., January 30, 1984.

“On St. Patrick’s Day”
: Ibid., February 22, 1984.

“I must not be too bright”
: Letter to President Reagan from Jerry Granat, April 9, 1984.

“You challenged their”
:
Time,
May 28, 1984.

“I was expressing”
: Ibid.

As Billy Pitts would
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 635.

Not content to stop there
:
Washington Post,
May 6, 1984.

“Whether or not Mr. O’Neill”
:
Washington Post,
June 21, 1985.

“Sure I have a candidate”
:
Time,
June 4, 1984.

“Sure she’s pushy”
: Matthews,
Hardball,
p. 72.

“She has a lot of political”
: Associated Press, May 4, 1984.

“I was sitting in the broadcast”
:
MOH,
p. 359.

Worse was the
:
Wall Street Journal,
October 9, 1984.

“If the point of this”
: Ibid.

“I never realized how easy”
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. 480.

“Well, the debate took place”
: RR, October 6–7, 1984.

“Another disastrous performance”
: Reagan,
An American Life,
p. 328.

“I want you to know”
: Reagan-Mondale debate, October 21, 1984.

when away from the Capitol
:
MOH,
p. 359.

“Well 49 states”
: RR, November 7, 1984.

the usual crew
: Farrell, p. 652.

The public inaugural was moved back a day because January 20 happened to fall on a Sunday in 1985.

“In my fifty years in public”
: Morris,
Dutch,
p. 512.