Posts Tagged ‘Bob Michel’
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Remembering a D-Day Anniversary
Posted on June 6, 2014
We were in Paris, having a couple of pints at the Harry’s American Bar, when we heard the news. Ronald Reagan had died....
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No Need To Respond
Posted on September 7, 2011
Ev and Gerry started the whole response thing. Everett Dirksen and Gerry Ford, the former Senate Republican leader from Illinois and the former House Minority Leader (and later President) from...
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Boehner Is In Fine Shape
Posted on July 27, 2011
John Boehner is doing an exceptional job as Speaker under extraordinarily tough times. When I first started working in Congress, Tom Foley had just taken over from Jim Wright as...
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Golf Summit
Posted on June 16, 2011
First, there was the beer summit. Now there is the golf summit. Where other Presidents had summits to negotiate nuclear arms deals or budget compromises, Barack Obama has chosen to...
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Newt
Posted on May 11, 2011
I first met Newt Gingrich in 1989. As an intern for House Minority Leader Bob Michel, my short-term task was to deliver Newt his lunch as he was meeting with...
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