The third episode of GBH’s podcast on the Big Dig focuses on the legendary Speaker of the House, Thomas "Tip" O’Neill. As the Democratic congressman representing parts of Cambridge and Boston, O’Neill ...

You always knew where “Tip” O’Neill stood ... hand on a colleague’s shoulder and asking for it. The speakers who followed O’Neill-Wright and Foley-had to rely more on political argument ...

And yet, just two years later, the Reagan Revolution ground to a halt, whipped in the midterm elections of 1982 by House Speaker Tip O’Neill’s Democrats. The Democrats picked up 26 seats.

Democrat House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill Jr. talks with President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office in 1985. AP When Ronald Reagan was president, the leader of the opposition was Speaker of the ...

On this day in 1983, House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill (D-Mass) hosted the first St. Patrick’s Day lunch at the U.S. Capitol. The lunch has since become an annual bipartisan event on ...

WASHINGTON — The family of former House Speaker Tip O’Neill will accept a medal honoring the late Massachusetts Democrat for his many years of public service. The medal is being bestowed by ...

Today, some question how close O'Neill and Reagan really were, but I got the impression that, especially after Reagan was shot, they became friends. Dan Lauria as former House Speaker Tip O ...

Despite significant ideological differences, President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill offer a model of friendship in and through difference. As Rich Gorecki writes, such friendship ...

“And I’m sure some of you, many of you younger listeners, are going, who the hell is Thomas ‘Tip’ O’Neill? He was the speaker of the house from 1977 to 1987.” The Cheers staff had a ...