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Transcript: Daniel Schorr's Week in Review
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- January 8, 1994
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[`Weekend Edition' theme music]
SUSAN STAMBERG, Host: From National Public Radio in Washington, D.C.,
this is Weekend Edition. I'm Susan Stamberg. Politics lost a giant
this week. Thomas `Tip' O'Neill, who served in the House of Representatives
from 1953 to 1987. When the former speaker stepped down, his words
of farewell touched the nation.
TIP O'NEILL: I'll always be a man of the House of Representatives.
But always first, I'm an American and so proud of this party. Thank
you. I love you all.
STAMBERG: Colorful, outgoing, political to the bone, Tip O'Neill
was also profoundly devoted to the concerns of ordinary Americans.
He'll be buried Monday in ...