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...accompanying the images that remain firmly embedded hours later. "We were poor. I asked for my mother for some bread. I said, 'I'm hungry.' She said. 'If you have bread, you'll be thirsty.'" "It was a stratified society. If a worker saw me dressed up, he'd tip his hat...But if three minutes later he found out I was Jewish, he'd spit on me. I hadn't changed in those three minutes." "If the world changes, we feel it." "On the trolley one day, a Pole told me, 'You see those buildings--they belong...
...that O'Neill had developed any confidence in Reagan as President - or as a thinker. To the contrary, the Speaker returned from White House meetings and told aides that he was astonished at the empty conversations. Reagan was a nice guy all right, related Tip, but not one for heavy business. When O'Neill raised certain issues, he reported, the President would invariably deflect them to an aide and resume his easy storytelling. Never, declared the disbelieving Speaker, had he seen a President work in such a detached...
...Neill is beginning to show an uncharacteristic passivity, as if events are already intimidating him. Last week a political friend called and asked if Tip would grease the way with one of his committee chairmen. In the good old days, the Speaker would have arranged the favor with ease. But O'Neill demurred; he did not want to risk pressing his chairmen too far. Fund raisers for the party seek him out less often; they say they need a more compelling voice to attract new money. O'Neill has other, more private problems. He suffers from a painful...
...Speaker is fighting to stay in place for another reason, this one deeply familial, as Irish as his roots. His son Tommy is running for Governor of Massachusetts, and Tip is determined to see him in the job. He rushes to every fund raiser for his boy, presses his friends to kick in. "Helping the son is the most important thing in his life," says a close friend. O'Neill wants to stay on the ballot in Massachusetts in 1982 to boost his son's candidacy...
...chamber; the Speaker rose and commanded silence. For a moment, he still appeared big and powerful, the man in charge. It was obvious that he still had an emotional hold on the House. But the hold is loosening now, and it looks very much as if the job Tip O'Neill has worked a lifetime for is offering challenges he can not meet...