Thomas P. O'Neill
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Tip was a man who was not bashful to call himself "a man of the house."
was a person whose greatest charm was that he seemed
"completely out-of-date as a politician." (Clift) He was a gruff, drinking,
card playing, backroom kind of guy. He had an image that political candidates
pay consultants t ....
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.... them. When
anyone asked him a favor, he would do it. O'Neill served fifty years in public
life and retired with only fifteen thousand dollars to his name. He devoted his
life and his money to the people of Boston.
Tip came of age in the Great Depression, arrived in congress from
Massachusetts in 1952 and "came to power amid the plenty of the '60s and '70s."
(Woodlief 4) He was a rampant liberal who "would usually vote yes on any bill
that helped people (he once voted to put money into a ....
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