Talk:Donald Riegle

Western Michigan or University of Michigan?
There is a discrepancy between the main body of text and the sidebar regarding where Riegle got his undergraduate degree -- was it UofM or Western? 76.202.118.151 (talk) 17:39, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

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Image, etc.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use an image of what Riegle looked like when he was a Senator? Wikipedia already has one available that is used at Keating Five. Also, why isn't the Keating Five scandal mentioned in this article? john k (talk) 14:15, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Party Switch?
Were his reasons or at least stated reasons for switching really differences with Nixon over Vietnam and Civil Rights? In 1973 Vietnam would have been winding down and Nixon's civil rights positions weren't really discernible from those of most liberal Democrats at the time. Obviously politicians can say anything, but this is a pivotal issue in his career and the article could use elaboration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.39.177.76 (talk) 15:55, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 29 March 2018

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The result of the move request was: Move. No objections after over a week. Cúchullain t/ c 20:50, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Donald W. Riegle Jr. → Donald Riegle – WP:COMMONNAME and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.

Common name: "Donald Riegle" senator returns nearly 16k results on Google, while "Don Riegle" senator returns 15k results and "Donald W. Riegle" senator (13k results). Also, the C-SPAN video database of Riegle shows far more instances of "Donald" in the on-screen chyrons than "Don".

In my search, I found various reasons to propose "Don" and various reasons to keep "Donald." First, reasons that swung me towards "Don Riegle":
 * My search in the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (which archives TV newscasts dating back to the '70s) finds 130 results for "Don Riegle" in contrast to 79 for "Donald Riegle." For instance, this abstract page indicates that NBC Nightly News used the "Don Riegle" name in a 1989 report about the Keating Five scandal. The same program in 1983 used "Sen. Don Riegle" in an on-screen chyron in a report about the Paul Volcker confirmation hearings.
 * Also, Riegle is OK going by "Don", as shown in this interview on NPR's Morning Edition where Ari Shapiro introduced him as "Don Riegle" to discuss Riegle's endorsement of Bernie Sanders for president in 2016.
 * A press release by the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 refers to him as "Don Riegle."

However, I see more compelling reasons to pick "Donald Riegle":


 * googling "Don Riegle" site:upi.com (for United Press International stories) returned 92 results to over 450 for "Donald Riegle" site:upi.com.
 * Also, "Don Riegle" site:newspapers.com has just 3k results to "Donald Riegle" site:newspapers.com with 10k results. Newspapers.com has archives of Michigan newspapers such as Detroit Free Press.

In addition, scholarly works use "Donald", such as the book Rule and Ruin by Geoffrey Kabaservice that lists "Riegle, Donald" in its index. So I do not see "Don Riegle" as common a name for this senator as Ted Kennedy (when most C-SPAN videos used "Edward Kennedy" in chyrons), Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, etc.

Primary topic: As a US Senator for nearly 20 years, the younger Riegle is far more notable than his father Donald W. Riegle Sr., whose highest political office was two years as mayor of Flint, Michigan. Arbor to SJ (talk) 06:41, 29 March 2018 (UTC)


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