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...trip was a reminder, too, that Tip O'Neill's adage about politics being local applies overseas as well. Two of the countries on his itinerary - Israel and Britain - are likely to see changes in government in the near future, so Obama made a point of meeting with leaders across the political spectrum. You could also see their domestic political concerns at work in how those foreign leaders approached Obama. Sarkozy, for example, has been under sharp criticism at home for his pro-American posture; it certainly didn't hurt him to be seen swooning over the only American politician...
There is, of course, an argument for experience, especially when the issues are complex and the special interests cunning. House Speaker Tip O'Neill used to grumble about the "bed wetters," the fresh-faced Democrats who hadn't been around long enough to know how to resist pressure from the Reagan White House. There's a reason roughly half the people who write the laws have law degrees. But surely there's value in having some teachers as legislators when No Child Left Behind is on the table, or some doctors and nurses on the committees dissecting health-care proposals...
...historian, Tyler G. Neill ’07-’08, was quick to note that the Co-op is not the hotbed of communism or granola-crunching hippies that it once...
...some sensible and compassionate social programs might have met with even more success. Yet Kennedy’s political platform has often seemed more suited to the Great Society of the 1960s than to the more fiscally tight 1980s. Along with Bay State congressional colleague Tip O’Neill, Kennedy has increasingly been seen as a caricature of the decline of 1960s urban liberalism, a vestigial proponent of an outdated philosophy. Exit polls during last month’s midterm elections illustrated this perception: they showed President Reagan comfortably ahead of Kennedy and of fellow old-style liberal Walter...
...rigidity of the Rent Control Board created an impasse that didn’t help tenants or landlords,” O’Neill said...