Mr Reid senior saw red, believing that Mr Dewar was hanging his son out to dry.
Mr Dewar died in October last year from a brain haemorrhage, at the age of 63.
Even without rebels and with Lib Dem support, Mr Dewar faces no easy ride.
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But replacing Mr Dewar with somebody more ruthless is not an easy option for Mr Blair.
It is hard to imagine Daniel Arap Moi, or Donald Dewar, for that matter, taking such trouble.
The 10-year-olds were all issued with medallions and a letter from the first first minister, Donald Dewar.
The money Mr Dewar's department now gets from Westminster will be 97% of the Scottish parliament's budget.
And yet, even if he survives, Mr Dewar needs to get his own house in order quickly.
Some Labour politicians, most notably Donald Dewar, the party's chief whip, are still arguing for this approach.
Mr Dewar is therefore considering allowing the parliament to make tax changes in the middle of the financial year.
So Mr Dewar promptly announced he was handing the whole caboodle to the Parliament's standards committee for an inquiry.
This, however, may turn out to be the least of Mr Dewar's headaches.
The Duke himself says he is largely happy with the proposed Dewar reforms.
Indeed, keeping the lid on these divisions is already proving to be a headache for Donald Dewar, the Scottish secretary.
Regular media reports were filed on the so-called "turf wars" between Dr Reid and the late first minister Donald Dewar.
Mr Dewar was sent to the Scottish Office because he has a defter touch than George Robertson, his shadow-cabinet predecessor.
She was walking on a footpath near the Donald Dewar Sports Centre when a man approached and started talking to her.
As leader of the opposition, it is his job to show up what he considers the incompetence of Mr Dewar's government.
Unlike Mr Dewar, few of the mooted replacements, such as Helen Liddell, a Treasury minister, intend to stand for the parliament.
When it comes to constitutional change, where Donald Dewar delivers, Salmond dithers, and we're going to get at least another thousand days.
Mrs Hanlan, 69, respected Mr Dewar, but she never voted for him.
Instead it is trying to portray Mr Dewar as a mean-minded back-stabber.
Jim Martin, chauffeur to Scotland's First Minister Donald Dewar and other Scottish ministers, received an MBE for his services to the Scottish Executive.
Dr Reid was promoted to the position of Scottish Secretary in May after Donald Dewar became First Minister in the new Scottish Parliament.
But no one expects Mr Wallace to use the temporary sidelining of Mr Dewar to push through a battery of Lib Dem measures.
In contrast, the Labour group has become increasingly fractious and rebellious, a discord which is in danger of intensifying with Mr Dewar's incapacity.
Yet Mr Dewar's scheme is full of difficulties: who decides, for instance, that a landowner is bad, rather than just not very good?
Mr Dewar may need all his political skills to win a referendum which once was thought to be all but in the bag.
Dealers can focus on selling the cars' features, instead of the deal, says Brent Dewar , North America vice president of marketing and advertising.
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