Steven S. Smith, in The Brookings Review (Winter 19871, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NX, Washington,
D.C. 20036.
"He was nondoctrinaire, grandfatherly, tough-minded, shrewd, an activist, a partisan, a gut liberal, adaptable." That is how Smith, a Brookings Insti- tution Senior Fellow, describes the recently retired Speaker of the House, Thomas l? "Tip" O'Neill.
A man with such qualities, it seems, would have made a powerful Speaker of the House. But the Massachusetts Democrat's...