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Jan 25, 2021 · President Reagan and Speaker O'Neill, 3/7/1985. Credit: Wikicommons. We need to get back to when politics worked in this country. Forty years ago this month, Ronald Reagan confronted a Democratic ...
Aug 16, 1981 · Tip O'Neill had tried to hold the Democratic majority of the House together in the face of an all-out campaign by a skillful, determined President. The Speaker had lost the first two rounds, the ...
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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.Aug 28, 2023 · This friendship, between the president and one of his rivals, shows a relationship of deep trust across difference. Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, and Thomas Phillip “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. (Boston College ’36), Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, were two political opposites.
Dec 9, 2012 · Tip O’Neill, an icon of Massachusetts politics, would have been 100 Sunday. In Boston, we remember O’Neill, who represented Boston districts in the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years ...
Nov 24, 2016 · John A. Farrell is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century, a biography of the late Speaker, and Richard Nixon: The Life, an upcoming biography of the 37 th president.
O’Neill, Thomas Philip, Jr. (“Tip”) ( b. 9 December 1912 in North Cambridge, Massachusetts; d. 5 January 1994 in Boston, Massachusetts), Massachusetts congressman who served for nearly four decades in Washington, holding positions as Democratic Party whip, majority leader, and Speaker of the House. O’Neill was a third generation Irish ...
