How Washington Works: What Every President Should Know
November, 1980
"I'll ream you ass out, you son of a bitch," Tip O'Neill told Hamilton Jordan shortly after Jimmy Carter's righthand man hit town--and that was before the President had even been sworn in. O'Neill, who functions as the Speaker of the House of Representatives when he isn't playing political proctologist, was angry and embarrassed because the seats he'd ordered for his family and friends for Carter's Inauguration Gala were in the back of the hall at the Kennedy Center. Jordan like the se...
