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Jan 25, 2021 · Forty years ago this month, Ronald Reagan confronted a Democratic Speaker of the House. The two figures were polar opposites in politics and ideology. The conservative president openly saw...
Aug 28, 2023 · Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill: A Real-life Friendship. by Rich Gorecki. Despite significant ideological differences, President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill offer a model of friendship in and through difference.
- Early Life
- Career Congressman
- Role in The Watergate Scandal
- Speaker of The House
- The Reagan Era
- Later Life
- Sources
Thomas "Tip" O'Neill was born December 9, 1912, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father was a bricklayer and local politician who served on the city council in Cambridge and later landed a patronage job as the city's sewer commissioner. As a boy, O'Neill picked up the nickname Tip and was known by that for the rest of his life. The nickname was a r...
In 1952, after a difficult primary, O'Neill won the election to the U.S. House of Representatives, taking over the seat John F. Kennedyvacated when he won the election to the U.S. Senate. On Capitol Hill O'Neill became a trusted ally of powerful Massachusetts congressman John McCormick, a future Speaker of the House. McCormick arranged to have O'Ne...
O'Neill knew that if the crisis over Watergate continued to escalate, impeachment proceedings would need to begin in the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. He made sure the committee chairman, Peter Rodino, a Democratic congressman from New Jersey, was up to the task ahead. O'Neill recognized that impeachment would need some suppo...
When Carl Albert retired as Speaker of the House, O'Neill was elected to the post by his colleagues, taking power in January 1977. That same month, Democrats took the White House for the first time in eight years when Jimmy Carterwas inaugurated. Beyond being Democrats, Carter and O'Neill had little in common. Carter had been elected by running aga...
The election of Ronald Reagan heralded a new era in politics, and O'Neill found himself adapting to it. His dealings with Reagan, which amounted to persistent principled opposition, would come to define O'Neill's career. O'Neill was skeptical of Reagan as president. In the New York Times obituary of O'Neill, it was noted that O'Neill had considered...
In retirement, O'Neill found himself a celebrity in demand. During his term as Speaker of the House, O'Neill was popular enough to make a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of the hit television comedy "Cheers." His congenial public image made him a natural for TV commercials for products ranging from Miller Lite Beer to a hotel chain. He ev...
Tolchin, Martin. "Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., A Democratic Power In the House for Decades, Dies at 81." New York Times, 7 January 1994, p. 21.Breslin, Jimmy. How the Good Guys Finally Won Notes from an Impeachment Summer. Ballantine Books, 1976."Thomas P. O'Neill." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., vol. 11, Gale, 2004, pp. 517-519. Gale Virtual Reference Library.Jun 13, 2023 · Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill: A Real-life Friendship. Published By Rich Gorecki. on February 28, 2022. Last Updated: June 13, 2023. Categories: Friendships. Much has been written about the friendship — both political and personal — between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill during the 1980s.
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Sep 30, 2013 · 09/30/2013 10:16 PM EDT. In all the ink that’s been spilled about the friendship — both political and personal — between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill during the 1980s, much has been made...
O'Neill became a leading opponent of President Reagan's conservative domestic policies, but O'Neill and Reagan found common ground in foreign policy, fostering the Anglo-Irish Agreement and implementing the Reagan Doctrine (despite considerable opposition to Reagan's support for the Contras in Nicaragua) in the Soviet–Afghan War.
