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The un-Kerry: meet John O'Neill, the Vietnam vet who once debated John Kerry on The Dick Cavett Show.(Campaign 2004)
More than 30 years after he returned to voluntary, and happy, obscurity as a Houston lawyer, 58-yearold John O'Neill is making a primetime comeback. Who's John O'Neill? He was the Vietnam veteran--a former commander of a Patrol Craft Fast, better known as the Swift boat--who famously debated one John Kerry, a fellow Swift skipper, for 90 minutes on The Dick Cavett Show back in 1971. C-SPAN excavated this particular television gem a couple of weeks ago and re-broadcast it.
In 1971, Kerry was leveraging his military experience for political gain (old habits die hard, eh?) and had recently testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the American ...
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- Magazine article from: Insight on the News February 16, 2004 700+ words
Byline: INSIGHT In 1996 Sen. John Kerry received $8,000 from Red China bag...American Conservative Union have sued Sen. John Kerry under an 1850s law updated in 1981 and...Barbara was not selected, though naturally John Kerry is a member. * The populist Website...
- `Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry'.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Moore, Roger October 1, 2004 700+ words
...presidential candidate John Kerry's life. It formed...Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" zeroes in on Kerry...their backer, John O'Neill, whose first job in...UPRIVER: THE LONG WAR OF JOHN KERRY 3 stars (out of 5...
- Was he really under fire? Vietnam and the presidency.(John Kerry's war under...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 28, 2004 700+ words
John Kerry's war record gets shot...with the American navy, John Kerry commanded a Patrol Craft...leader of the group, John O'Neill, has written a book...account conflicts with Mr O'Neill's claim that Mr Kerry killed...
- JOHN KERRY THE SENATOR, IN THE SPOTLIGHT, THROWS A CURVE AT HIS DETRACTORS
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Michael Kranish, Globe Staff March 4, 1988 700+ words
...his monitor, where Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, one of the Senate's chief critics...sought-after interview in town. "Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, who chaired the committee...former Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill's advice that "all politics is local...
- A phalanx of John Kerry's former swift-boat comrades from Vietnam held a press...
- Magazine article from: National Review May 31, 2004 700+ words
* A phalanx of John Kerry's former swift-boat comrades from...band of brothers." Led by John O'Neill, profiled in our May 3 issue ("The...made, prompted them to speak out. John Kerry could take a step toward healing the...
- War over war crimes.(political ads aim to raise questions regarding...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Gilgoff, Dan Schulte, Bret September 6, 2004 700+ words
...wind of a TV ad launched by an anti-John Kerry group accusing the Democratic candidate...lied about his record," says John O'Neill, the public face of the anti-Kerry...what was bull and what wasn't." O'Neill says most of those who testified were...
- In search of roots; John Kerry.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 9, 2004 700+ words
...returned from Saigon to lead Vietnam Veterans Against the War--John Kerry has proved to be one of the most out-of-focus candidates...because it is rootless. It was a Boston Democrat, Tip O'Neill, who said, "all politics is local". Massachusetts politicians...
- BEANTOWN'S DEMOCRATIC ROOTS RUN TO KENNEDYS, KERRY.(Boston,...
- Magazine article from: WWD Bowers, Katherine June 22, 2004 700+ words
...particularly true this year because the presumptive nominee is John Kerry, a native son who keeps a town house in the Beacon Hill neighborhood...Connor. The late Speaker of the House, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, succeeded Kennedy as the Congressman representing South Boston...
Source: HighBeam Research, The un-Kerry: meet John O'Neill, the Vietnam vet who once debated...