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...history of Congress. Russell Long of Louisiana is the sharp, smooth-talking, back-room Senate insider; Barry Goldwater is the quixotic loner whose conservatism was ahead of its time; Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland is one of the last of the moderate, progressive Republicans; and Tip O'Neill, the Massachusetts Representative and Speaker of the House, is the embodiment of traditional liberalism...
With his sheath of white hair, his bulbous nose and whalelike body, Tip O'Neill is a caricaturist's dream. Over the past decade, cartoonists have made the Speaker of the House almost as familiar an American icon as Uncle Sam. Though Republicans depicted Democrat O'Neill, 73, as the incarnation of bloated liberalism, the Speaker actually stands for something both larger and smaller: the beliefs that Government should help remedy the inequities of society and that a politician should help those in his own backyard. "All politics is local," O'Neill liked to say; he built his career around...
Kennedy acknowledged that he will enter the House as a freshman Congressman and called it an honor to be selected by the same voters who chose Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill for 34 years. He said he would try to follow the Speaker's example in helping "the ordinary hard-working American poor" and in increasing social services...
Incumbent Democrat Christopher Dodd won re-election with more than 60 percent of the vote. In a tightly contested governor's race, incumbent Democrat Bill O'Neill defeated Julie Belaga...
Kennedy stalwarts turned out en masse to send the youngest of the Kennedy political clan to the seat being vacated by retiring House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. with a stylish 71 to 21 percent victory over Republican candidate Clack...