"Once they’d finished, the Speaker let go of the president’s hand, stood up, and bent to kiss him on the forehead.“ ‘I’d better be going,’ he told the patient.‘I don’t want to tire you out.’”"
"Once they’d finished, the Speaker let go of the president’s hand, stood up, and bent to kiss him on the forehead.“ ‘I’d better be going,’ he told the patient.‘I don’t want to tire you out.’”"
But is oddly absent in Tip O'Neill's own recount here from 1987.
"This was three days after the shooting, and he was clearly exhausted and in pain. I stayed only a moment, as he obviously was in no shape to receive visitors."
The Tip O'Neill kissing Reagan's head appears in this 2013 article by Chris Matthews
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna53150184
"Once they’d finished, the Speaker let go of the president’s hand, stood up, and bent to kiss him on the forehead.“ ‘I’d better be going,’ he told the patient.‘I don’t want to tire you out.’”"
But is oddly absent in Tip O'Neill's own recount here from 1987.
https://wapo.st/3yhWjQ7
"This was three days after the shooting, and he was clearly exhausted and in pain. I stayed only a moment, as he obviously was in no shape to receive visitors."
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