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...made a point of saying, "I can work with anyone," he is known to loathe Burton. Suddenly, an emissary burst from the Speaker's lobby, where the secret paper ballots were being counted, held up one finger and passed the word to members: Wright 148, Burton 147. Tip O'Neill was grinning, ear to ear. The early speculation was proved wrong: 53 Boiling voters swung to Wright and only 40 to Burton...
Thomas Philip ("Tip") O'Neill Jr., who turned 64 last week, is the quintessential Boston Irish pol. Grandson of an immigrant bricklayer, he was a campaign worker for Alfred E. Smith at 15 and a candidate for the Cambridge city council at 22. He wound up 150 votes behind in the only election he has ever lost. A year later he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature, and was 36 when he became the first Democratic speaker of the house...
Would-be muckrakers find little dirt in O'Neill's record. He has voted right, by liberal Democratic standards, on virtually every major bill before the House. Tongsun Park paid heavily for a birthday party for O'Neill, but Tip got none of the money...
With his salary raised from the majority leader's $52,000 a year to $65,600, Tip has finally persuaded Millie that they can afford a Washington home, and she will join him there. Two daughters are already near by-Rosemary in the State Department and Susan working as a representative for the National Association of Government Employees. Eldest son Thomas P. O'Neill III, 31, is currently tied to Boston: he is Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts...
...While Tip may rule the House, he could find that with Millie ruling the household seven days a week, he might at last lose weight and keep it off. Although he stands 6 ft. 2½ in., he has yo-yoed between 210 and 296 lbs., now carries a bulky...