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In publishing his autobiography, Tip O`Neill has done the American people a great favor: He has reminded us how grateful we should be that he is finally out of office.

As a legislator, the man was a travesty, a walking political cartoon who gave new meaning to the term ”party hack” and who reacted to any original idea the way primitive man always reacted to the unknown: by fleeing from it in terror.