Radicalism versus Professionalism: A Call to Arms
December 2009 By Robert Shoup
President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the
House Tip O’Neil rarely saw eye-to-eye on any issue.
Yet at the end of the day, they could still share a cigar
and a drink as friends. The reason for this is that as
professionals, they constrained their arguments to the
issues, and they used data and logic to make their
respective points.