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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 17, 1994
MEMORANDUM
TO:
john Podesta
Staff Secretary
Don Baer
Director of Speechwriting
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FROM:
Carter Wilkie
SUBJECT:
Deadline for tribute to Tip O'Neill
The attached draft is for a book of tributes to Tip O'Neill,
to be compiled and printed by Congress soon. This
replaces an earlier draft we submitted in February. The
staff working on this project on the Hill received a
number of tributes that were longer and more personal
than our original, but they allowed us to revise and
extend our remarks as necessary.
They have been very patient in extending our deadline.
which. I am sorry to say. is today. They are shipping the
book to their printer tomorrow.
This draft has been approved by Susan Brophy and Tim
Keating in Legislative Affairs. With your approval, I will
send it to jack Looney, in the office of the House
Sergeant-at-Arms today.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
DRAFT OF THE PRESIDENT'S TRIBUTE TO THE LATE THOMAS
P.
O'NEILL, JR.
Just hours after I had been given the news that Tip O'Neill had passed away in
Boston, I learned that my mother, Virginia Kelley, had died in her sleep in Hot Springs,
Arkansas. Though they spra.J;lg from very different regions of the country, I would like to
think they shared some important things. They
w~re
generous and colorful people, with big
hearts, both of which happened to stop beating less tlian a day apart.
When their generation was young, there was little room at the top of the American
I
, establishment for the sons, or the grandsons, of iiiUl)igrants, let alone the daughters and
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granddaughters. Our country's fmest universities were the exclusive domain of a few.
While America
WaS indeed the land of opportunity, 'where
YO"!J could work hard and get
ahead, a privile~ed life was still very much a birthright. And whether you were born into
an Irish
neighborho~d
in the North, or a small, rural town in the South, there was a
simplicity to life that was pretty much the same all over: You worked hard. · You got by.
And that was it.
There were few ways to work your way up the ladder.
Tip O'Neill
helped to changed all of that.
Tip O'Neill liked to call himself a man of the;: House, and he surely was. But he
. was more.
He was a man of the people, a
bricklayer~ s
son who helped build what we
came to call the great American middle class. In Washington, he fought for loans to open
�the d~ors of colleges and universities to millions of families \yhose children had never
walked through their halls. He fought for policies to bring home ownership ·wi~n the
reach of young working couples.
dignity, with some security.
He fought so that older Americans could retire in
If the other side in politics believed in the doctrine of every-
man-for-himself, Tip O'Neill believed in something better: help Americans fmd a fair
~hot
at the American Dream and they will do extraordinary things. Work hard~ and you should
be rewarded in return -- opportunity in exchange for responsibilicy. He knew that all of this
would build a stronger America down the· roa~.
As Speaker of the United States
Hous~
of Representatives, Tip O'Neill was the
nation's most prominent, powerful and loyal champion of working Americans. He loved
politics and government 'because he saw how politics
~d
government could make a
difference in·people's lives. And he loved people most of all -- his neighbors, his
constituents, his close colleagues and his family.
Tip O'Nem didn't care much for Republican. ideas, and he would say so. But som~
of his closest :friendships were forged with fellow office holders from the other side of the
aisle. That fact .is a great tribute to his graceful character. To Tip O'Neill, politics was not
about· a game of win-or-lose, or making your opponents. look bad on .television. 'It was
about doing the best for your country. He fought hard for the country -he believed in, but
he did so knowing that if he and his opponents could enjoy each other's company at the·
· end of the day, then all the better; America would be better off in the end.
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America is better off today because of Tip O'Neill.
He made politics· honorable
and enjoyable, because he never forgot who he was, where he came from, and who sent
him. to
Washingt~n
in the first place.
If you worked and lived in politics when he did, he
'
made you proud
~o
be a fellow Democrat. If you were a Republican, ·he made you proud to
..
be a fellow public servant.
And if you were one of millions· of others, who neither· knew
about Tip O'Neill or politics first-~and, the work he did on your behalf made you proud to.
be living .in America, whether you knew he was responsible for it or not.
The life and career of Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. still makes us proud today -- and will
continue to do so for a long, long time.
William J. Clinton
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