When Tip O'Neill gets mad, things start to happen
Frank Moore dreaded the encounter.
"You can't believe how this is going to upset the Speaker," said President Carter's congressional liaison man.
"Why don't you go see him?" replied the President. "Tell him I'm going to back Solomon."
"I'll do that," said Moore, "but he's going to blow up."
What Moore had to tell House Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill two weeks ago was that Carter was going to back Jay Solomon, chief of the scandal-plagued General Services Administration, in the dismissal of the agency's No. 2 Executive, Robert Griffin. An old friend of O'Neill's, Griffin was in...
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