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If you 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 ball of a 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.

Tip O'Neill was bigger than life.

Alice Wolfe is the former mayor of Cambridge, which made up part of O'Neill's congressional than life. Alice Wolfe is the former mayor of Cambridge,

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

He had an event, a hotel in Cambridge.

I remember going in there,

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

Mary's Amparalli.

My God, Mary.

Who are you?

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