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Throngs of politicians, friends and family of former Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill gathered in Cambridge for the Democrat's funeral here Monday morning...
Cambridge and Harvard officials yesterday lamented the passing of Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr., a wellknown Cantabrigian Democrat whose political career began in North Cambridge and culminated with a decade as speaker of the House...
Before he was elected speaker of the House in 1977, O'Neill was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War in the '60s--then a risky political stance--and he helped lead the effort to impeach then-President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal...
Afterward, the mayor went up to the youngpolitician, told him he was the worst speaker hehad ever heard, and asked him to come over to hishouse later, according to Walsh...
...still," he told House Speaker John McCormack, who was trying to work out a time after the Kennedy funeral for Johnson to address a joint session of Congress. "I've got to keep the government going. I met with the Cabinet this afternoon. We've got the budget to resolve next week. But I don't want the family to feel that I am having any lack of respect, so I have a delicate wire to walk there...