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Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia

Tip and the Gip Part 1 | The Reagan Era

Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia

Slate Podcasts

Politics, History, News, Government

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Whistlestop visits 1981 when Republican President Ronald Reagan, after surviving an assassination attempt, received a warm visit from the Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill.


Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.


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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research by Brian Rosenwald and Elizabeth Hinson.


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The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:23.2

Hello and welcome to Whistlesop, a podcast of the presidency.

0:26.5

I'm John Dickerson of CBS this morning.

0:36.3

The 70 year old-old patient lay threaded through the tubes of a George Washington University hospital pet recovering from a gunshot that had pierced

0:40.6

his lung. He'd lost half his blood in an internal hemorrhage and he was still

0:45.2

weak. But he was not so spent that he could not whisper along with his Irish Catholic

0:49.9

visitor who had knelt to pray for him. They said the 23rd Psalm, the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want,

0:55.7

he maketh me to lie down in green pastures. The bullet had come within an inch of the patient's

1:01.5

heart death had been closer than all but the

1:03.7

tightest circle of his intimates had known. That circle had to be tight

1:08.0

because the exterior circle of interested parties was large, a country of nearly 300 million who had elected the

1:15.2

patient, the 40th President of the United States, just four months earlier.

1:19.8

Had he died, the man kneeling in prayer would have been the next in line after the vice president

1:23.8

to replace him.

1:25.3

When Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill had finished praying, he hauled himself back up and bent

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