ONE HUNDRED AND ONE YEARS SINCE RICHARD NIXON WAS BORN

RICHARD M. NIXON 

January 9, 1913- April 22, 1994 

Speaker of the House of Representatives 

CARL ALBERT (left) and 

President RICHARD NIXON (right) 

in the White House 

TIP O'NEILL GONE TWENTY YEARS TODAY

THOMAS P. ("TIP") 

O'NEILL, JR. 

December 9, 1912- 

January 5, 1994 

TIP O'NEILL 

AT HIS CAPE COD HOME 

HARWICH PORT, MASSACHUSETTS 

More on the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, here 

"OUR NIXON"

WHOSE NIXON? 

U.S. President RICHARD M. NIXON 
meets with the leaders of Congress 
in the Cabinet Room of the White House 
Washington, D.C., January 1974 

L-R: U.S. House Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill, Jr., House Minority Leader John Rhodes, House Speaker Carl Albert, President Nixon, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield 

CNN today had its television premiere of the film "Our Nixon." 

to be continued 

WILLAM ROTH b. July 22, 1921

WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR. 

July 22, 1921-December 13, 2003 

SENATOR ROTH (R-DE) 

In the Reagan Era 

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 

January 3, 1967-December 31, 1970 

Member of the U.S. Senate 

January 1, 1971-January3, 2001 

The ROTH in ROTH IRA 

The Congressional Biography, here 

JOHN DINGELL BECOMES THE LONGEST SERVING MEMBER OF CONGRESS

JOHN DAVID DINGELL, JR. 

REP. JOHN DINGELL 

(D-Michigan) 

roughly halfway through his career in 

the U.S. House of Representatives 

Published in the August 13, 1984 issue of 

BUSINESS WEEK (p. 65) 

Today Rep. Dingell becomes the longest-serving member of the U.S. Congress (trumping former Senator Robert Byrd), having first won an election to replace his deceased father, Rep. John David Dingell, Sr., on December 13, 1955.  There are many tributes and lists of accomplishments.  See here and here and here and here and here.  For another photograph, see here. 

New:  Two accounts of the party honoring Dingell, June 13, 2013, can be found here ("Leave it to John Dingell to bring left and right together, if only for a little bit") and here "a heartfelt ceremony" capped by Mary Wilson of the Supremes -- and friends -- singing "Stop! In the Name of Love." 

FORMER SPEAKER JIM WRIGHT IS NINETY

JAMES C. WRIGHT, JR. 

b. December 22, 1922 

JIM WRIGHT (D-TX)  

in his Congressional Leadership Days 

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 

1955-1989 

Speaker, 1987-1989 

His Congressional Biography here 

KIP O'NEILL & THE TIP O'NEILL KENNEDY LIBRARY CENTENNIAL III

KIP O'NEILL HONORS 

HIS FATHER 

CHRISTOPHER R. ("KIP") O'NEILL 
SPEAKS AT THE KENNEDY LIBRARY 
FORUM CELEBRATING THE CENTENNIAL 
OF SPEAKER THOMAS P. ("TIP") O'NEILL, JR. 
Boston, December 9, 2012 

The video is here; Kip O'Neill comes in at about 1:27 
More on the Kennedy Library Forum is here 
More on Tip O'Neill here 

IN HONOR OF THE CENTENNIAL OF TIP O'NEILL

THOMAS P. ("TIP") O'NEILL, JR. 

b. December 9, 1912 

TIP IN A TUX 

REDUX 

More Tip 

To be celebrated at the Kennedy Library 
December 9, 2012 

Video of the Kennedy Library Forum 
"Celebrating the Life of Tip O'Neill" 
here 

JOE KENNEDY IS SIXTY

JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, II 

b. September 24, 1952 

JOE KENNEDY 

Not Quite Twenty 

Published on p. 1 of the 

July 11, 1972, issue of 

Women's Wear Daily 

Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987-1999 (biography here).  He is the founder of Citizens Energy Corporation and currently its Chairman and President (information and contemporary photographs here and here). 

INTRODUCING MR. RYAN

PAUL RYAN TO THE FORE

REP. PAUL RYAN (R-Wisconsin)

At the 2012 Republican National Convention

Televised August 29, 2012 (C-Span)

PHILIP SHARP IS SEVENTY

PHILIP RILEY SHARP

b. July 15, 1942

PHILIP R. SHARP

as Democratic

Representative from Indiana

Published in BUSINESS WEEK

March 14, 1983, p 26

Philip Sharp served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975-1995. He then taught at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and became the director of the K-School's Institute of Politics. Since September 2005 he has been President of Resources for the Future (RFF); his website there, including a contemporary photograph, can be found here.

LONG-TIMERS ON THE LINE, June 26, 2012, II: CHARLES RANGEL

WATCH THIS RACE

II

REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES B. RANGEL (D-NY)

Published in the February 14, 1983

Issue of BUSINESS WEEK (p. 36)

Rep. Rangel is the first on the left in the photograph

The primary is today; some of the history and some of the context are here; stay tuned.

TIP O'NEILL'S CENTENNIAL GETS AN EARLY KICKOFF

LAUNCHING THE

O'NEILL CENTENNIAL

THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR., IN THE COBBLER SHOP

OF JOHN GIMIGLIANO, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

Cambridge, Massachusetts, is getting an early start on the centennial of its native son, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, Jr., longtime Representative and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, born December 9, 1912. The Main Public Library in Cambridge is hosting a two-month-long O'Neill exhibit, and next Tuesday, May 22, from 7-8 p.m., will host a panel discussion entitled "Mr. Speaker: The Family of Tip O'Neill Reminisces."

More Tip O'Neill here and here

CARL ALBERT b. May 10, 1908

CARL BERT ALBERT

May 10, 1908-February 4, 2000

CARL ALBERT (D-OK), SPEAKER OF THE

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (l) &

THOMAS P. ("TIP") O'NEILL, JR. (D-MA),

MAJORITY LEADER (r)

Published in TIME Magazine, February 4, 1974, p. 21

Carl Albert, Rhodes Scholar, Attorney, Bronze Star, World War II, represented Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947-1977, rising through the ranks to become Speaker (1971-1977) (details here).

JOE MOAKLEY WOULD HAVE BEEN EIGHTY-FIVE TODAY

JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEY, JR.

April 27, 1927-May 28, 2001

Representatives THOMAS P. ("TIP") O'NEILL, Jr. (l)

& JOHN JOSEPH ("JOE") MOAKLEY, Jr. (r)

(D-Massachusetts)

MIKE MANSFIELD b. March 16, 1903

MICHAEL JOSEPH MANSFIELD

March 16, 1903-October 5, 2001

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER

MIKE MANSFIELD (D-Montana) (l)

&

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

CARL ALBERT (D-Oklahoma) (r)

WAITING TO SPEAK

Senator Mansfield was first a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943-1953; then a Senator from 1953-1977 (including Majority Leader from 1961-1977); and the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977-1988 (more details here and here).

THOMAS P. ("TIP") O'NEILL, Jr., d. January 5, 1994

THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR.

December 9, 1912-January 5, 1994

Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives

1977-1987

"TIP" RETIRES FROM

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MARTIN TOLCHIN WRITES

ABOUT THE

SPEAKER IN RETIREMENT

"EX-SPEAKER O'NEILL:

A SALTY PAR FOR THE COURSE"

THE NEW YORK TIMES

August 28, 1987

For more Tip, see the labels below, and here

TIP O'NEILL b. December 9, 1912

THOMAS P. ("TIP") O'NEILL, Jr.

December 9, 1912-January 5, 1994

SPEAKER TIP O'NEILL

WORKS THE MICROPHONE

AND THE ROOM

For more on the longest continuously-serving Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, born ninety-nine years ago today, see here and here and here and here and here and here.

BARBER CONABLE b. November 2, 1922

BARBER BENJAMIN CONABLE, JR.

November 2, 1922-November 30, 2003

BARBER CONABLE

Notably

Member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-NY), 1965-1985

7th President of the World Bank, 1986-1991

The World Bank has a lengthy and informative retrospective of Barber Conable's time as its president here. It points out that the twenty-year Republican Representative from New York "was the first career politician to be appointed president of the Bank, and the only one without substantial Wall Street experience." The New York Times (here) and the Los Angeles Times (here) ran substantive obituaries, but two of the most interesting came from this American politician came from the U.K.

Conable, the Guardian wrote (here), "is best remembered as the man who took the World Bank by the scruff of the neck, totally reorganised its often sclerotic bureaucracy and persuaded the US Congress to double the amounts the bank could disburse to developing nations." He "also engineered a significant shift in the disbursement of this additional cash. He diverted the bank from its previous fascination with glitzy prestige projects towards schemes more clearly designed to relieve poverty. He encouraged far wider education in birth control, without which few Third World women could ever hope to improve their lot. He also insisted that the bank pay greater attention to the environmental impact of the large engineering schemes it decided to support."

The Telegraph noted (here) that Conable also paid attention to "to Eastern Europe as it emerged from Communism and attempted to establish free market economies. 'I pledge to you,' he told the Eastern Europeans, 'you can count on the World Bank in the tough times ahead, not just in the first euphoric moments of change.'"

But he left the World Bank presidency after the end of his single five-year term, not long into the changes in Eastern Europe, when his long friendship with George Bush "turned sour after Bush ascended to the presidency in 1989." (Conable had been appointed by Ronald Reagan.) Bush "'thought I should be supporting an American agenda,' Conable said in 1998. 'I thought I was there to help the poor people. So I got the reputation of not being a team player, and that was the one thing George wouldn't stand for.'"

Finally, more than one of the obituaries noted that during his Congressional career, Conable refused to accept more than fifty dollars from any campaign contributor, "for fear of compromising his integrity."

JOHN HEINZ b. October 23, 1938

HENRY JOHN HEINZ III

October 23, 1938-April 4, 1991

SENATOR

H. JOHN HEINZ III (R-PA)

Photograph published in the May 23, 1983, issue of

BUSINESS WEEK (p. 44)

The late Senator Heinz's Congressional biography is to be found here; the website in his memory is here. A bit about his widow, now Teresa Heinz Kerry, is here.