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Opinion: It's Time to Move On From Reagan
By Bob Maistros - AOL NewsI was a writer in Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984, a fact I usually don't mention until I get, say, two sentences into conversation with anyone I meet. I only met the president once in a grip-and-grin reception for staff. But because of my role, however minor, in the success of the greatest chief executive of my lifetime, I will be among those heartily celebrating the centennial of his birth. And then I will exhort my fellow Republicans to move on. This sentiment isn't fashionable right now, as the Great Communicator is more admired than ever. GOP leaders extol his bold tax and ...
The Challenger Disaster and President Reagan's Gift to a Grieving Nation
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyOn Jan. 28, 1986, Ronald Reagan was scheduled to give his State of the Union address. In a meeting with a bi-partisan delegation of congressional leaders, he and House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. tangled over the issue of unemployment. After they left, Reagan prepared to have the traditional State of the Union lunch with the network anchors while receiving a last-minute briefing from acting press secretary Larry Speakes when several members of the White House staff rushed in with news that the Space Shuttle Challenger had exploded after takeoff. The State of the Union speech was ...
State of the Union Preview: The New Drive to Eliminate Partisan Rancor
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIt began in 1983 as the congressional version of a high-school gag. Frustrated that once again they would be reduced to extras in the over-produced spectacle of a Ronald Reagan State of the Union address, House Democrats secretly plotted their revenge. When the advance text of the president's remarks circulated on Capitol Hill the day of the speech, Tip O'Neill's merry pranksters highlighted an innocuous sentence towards the end of the speech: "We who are in government must take the lead in restoring the economy." When Reagan read this line on cue, House Democrats erupted as if the ...
Democrats Turned Away From Pelosi in Record Numbers in Ceremonial Vote
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe abandonment of Rep. Nancy Pelosi by 19 Democrats in the pro-forma vote for speaker of the House marked a breakdown in party loyalty of historic measure, according to the Washington Post. Not since 1913, when 23 Republicans bolted from the GOP's speaker nominee, has a party leader suffered so many defections, Congressional Research Service records show. Of the 19 Democrats who didn't support Pelosi, one voted "present" and the other 18 cast protest ballots for some other Democratic House member. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), who unsuccessfully challenged Pelosi for minority leader last ...
Experts Rank Pelosi Among Greatest House Speakers
By Andrea Stone - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Nov. 4) -- Nancy Pelosi may be moving out of her spacious office in the Capitol, but the woman who broke the marble ceiling to become the first female speaker of the House has already moved into the ranks of the most effective legislators in history. "While right now she is overshadowed by this thumping, she's going to rank quite high in the pantheon of modern speakers" of the last 100 years, said Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Only Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving speaker in history whose parliamentary ...
Former Ohio Rep. Thomas 'Lud' Ashley Dead at 87; Democrat Close to H.W. Bush
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFormer Ohio Rep. Thomas "Lud" Ashley, a liberal Democrat known for his work on civil rights, public housing and anti-poverty legislation, died Monday at his home in Leland, Mich. He was 87. Lud Ashley was practically a household name in Toledo. He represented the city and surrounding area in northwestern Ohio for 26 years, losing in 1980 in the Republican landslide brought on by Ronald Reagan's election. Ironically, he was nearly a lifelong friend of Reagan's vice president, George H. W. Bush, who was elected president in 1988. Ashley and Bush were buddies at Yale University in the 1940s, and ...
Oh, So Reagan DID Have Good Ideas, Senator?
By Denise Williams - Politics DailySpeaking to an O'Reilly audience that has to include aging "Reagan Democrats", Hill and Bill had this exchange aired Wednesday night: CLINTON: I have not made any commitment on what we're going to do on Social Security. O'REILLY: Well, why? You're going to run for president. Are you going to do it or not? CLINTON: Well, because here's why. I learned a lesson from Ronald Reagan. In 1980, when he was elected, our Social Security system was in a mess. The Democrats weren't agreeing and a lot of the Republicans were nervous. So Speaker Tip O'Neill, another great American politician, the two ...
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