Support for the Big Dig comes from Cure Alzheimer's Fund, which supports foundational scientific research

into the causes of Alzheimer's disease, because research is the only path to a cure.

Learn more at cure ALZ.org. If you'll drive through the big dig today and you look up just as the road

dives underground you'll see a name in big white letters over the tunnel entrance but the name is not

Fred Salvucci and it's not Michael Dukakis the name is Thomas P O'Neill Jr. A man known better as Tip O'Neill.

I know you came here to see the man that's about the third most part of the man in the United States,

maybe the second. The man who is representing us so well.

Mr. Speaker, Tip O'Neill.

Tip O'Neill was a bear of a man with bright white hair and a bulbous nose.

And his whole career he operated by the simple motto that he made famous.

All politics is local.

I wish everybody would sit down.

I built how uncomfortable.

Tip O'Neill was bigger than life.

Alice Wolf is the former mayor of Cambridge,

which made up part of O'Neil's congressional district.

He had an event of Hotel in Cambridge,

and I remember going in there,

and he would know every single person that was the event.

Mary's Aberrale.

My God, Mary, who are you?

And he said, how's your Aunt Molly? how is your daughter doing now in school?

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