An old rival fondly recalls
Dennis Duggan
Dennis Duggan Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday
The first time Geraldine Ferraro met the newly elected
president, Ronald Reagan was at a private White House dinner for Republican and
Democratic party leaders in February 1981.
"I was running late, and when I got to the dinner, I saw an empty seat and
sat in it," Ferraro said yesterday. Reagan and then-House Speaker Tip O'Neill -
who was Ferraro's mentor during her...
