Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irishman's strongest trait, cultivated in the Massachusetts legislature, is the tricky ability to consistently communicate with all members of the House. Thomas O'Neill III, a freshman representative on Beacon Hill, explained his father's lasting techniques: "Dad can't stand being disliked. He's so friendly that animosity is a foreign word to him. If there's a problem between another member and him, Dad simply calls him or her up and clears up the difficulty--no hard feelings remain. He talks friend-to-friend and communicates best with members in the committee room...
...home. I don't like having to make all the decisions." Even when Captain Lauren Robert Lengyel was shot down in August 1967, Margaret didn't expect to spend the next 5½ years raising four children by herself. "It is hard to be both Mom and Dad, especially with three boys." She expects Captain Lengyel to be one of the first to arrive home, but she says: "Even if he doesn't come till the last flight, after waiting as long as we have, 60 days is nothing...
...plane burst into flames, and my son Greg said, 'Dad, there're still people in there.' It's wonder I feel. Why did we get out and not them...
...President of the U.S. ordered your son to attend your inauguration,' Dad said. 'If you think somebody was trying to embarrass you, then the President assumes full responsibility...
...father had ordered John Eisenhower home as a gesture of thoughtfulness. He was not serving in the front lines or in any vital role in the Army, so there was no reason to accuse either his father or Dad of favoritism, or of endangering the public interest. It astonished Dad that Ike resented his gesture. It still astonishes...