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It was a scoop that Peter Lucas, then a Herald columnist, meditation the mayor had given him a night earlier, only to learn 24 hours later that Milky would not seek a fifth term.
For a brief time, the Herald seemed to have beaten all of its competitors among the Boston expos media in the feeding frenzy to get the hottest political story of the year.
Rooney’s parade of the incorrect headline on Monday - and, with it, her assertion that White had purposely deceived Lucas - touched off a full frontal attackon the former Herald columnist by her secondarily guest, George Regan, a Boston public relations heavyweight.
At the period of the 1983 incident, Regan was White’s press secretary.
Verbatim what was said during the segment, which was recorded, is being kept under wraps by Rooney and her producers. They declined a insist on by the Globe for a copy of the segment that never aired.
But the screaming match appears to have centered on whether Cadaverous intentionally misled Lucas about his plan to run again, causing the erroneous headline and version or whether Lucas misinterpreted what White told him. The verbal exchange was enthusiastic enough that Rooney was forced to junk the take, calm down her guests, and reshoot the cleave so it was suitable for television.
Source: Boston Globe