TIP O'NEILL
Gwendolyn Stewart
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. (D-Mass.), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1977-1987
December 9, 1912 - January 5, 1994
Most quoted saying: "ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL."
Often heard to say:
"He who don't toot his own horn,
Don't get his own horn tooted."
Photograph by GWENDOLYN STEWART © 2008
THOMAS P. "TIP" O'NEILL, JR.
Walking the Beach near His Home on Cape Cod
Photograph by Gwendolyn Stewart ©2008
Published in the August 28, 1987, New York TIMES
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., known as "Tip" to nearly everyone (but not to his wife, Millie, to whom he was "Tom"), was very much a man of North Cambridge, born and bred. He famously never forgot where he came from. But he also came to love Cape Cod. His work on behalf of the Cape Cod National Seashore was one of his proudest achievements.
TIP O'NEILL COMES TO JOHN GIMIGLIANO'S COBBLER SHOP, NORTH CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (photograph © GWENDOLYN STEWART 2008)
More about politics in PICTURE POLITICS
TIME MAGAZINE COVER PAINTED FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF TIP O'NEILL BY GWENDOLYN STEWART
SHORT OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF TIP O'NEILL
MEDAL OF FREEDOM (1991) CITATION
Other Work by Gwendolyn Stewart:
THE BIG DIG/FREDERICK SALVUCCI
BORIS YELTSIN: Another Big Politician Who Knew That All Politics Is Local
BILL & BORIS & VLADIMIR & GEORGE & Strobe Talbott's THE RUSSIA HAND: AMERICA'S RUSSIA POLICY
THE PHOENIX: YELTSIN & THE FUTURE OF RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP
GAO XINGJIAN: CHINA'S FIRST NOBEL LAUREATE IN LITERATURE
JANIS JOPLIN/THE LAST CONCERT
GWENDOLYN STEWART:
MORE PHOTOGRAPHS & MORE ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER * * * * An
exhibition of a quarter-century of the photography of Gwendolyn Stewart
entitled "HERE BE GIANTS" was held last
year at Harvard
Photographs from the show are available for purchase. Please contact: GWENDOLYN STEWART
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GWENDOLYN STEWART is both a photojournalist and a political scientist specializing in political leadership in Russia, China, and the U.S. A former Bunting/Radcliffe Fellow, she is an Associate (and former Post-Doctoral Fellow) of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, as well as an Associate in Research of the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. For the Fairbank Center she co-founded and co-chairs the China Current Events Workshop, a forum for examining pressing issues in Greater China. Her Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (Sic Transit) dealt with the role of the leaders of the republics, especially Boris Yeltsin, in the breakup of the Soviet Union. She is currently writing RUSSIA REDUX, the story of Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: part political analysis, part travel-memoir. Imagine wandering over the largest country on earth, not in the train of a railroad, but in the train of one of the most powerful and contradictory men on earth. Or all by yourself.
