Robert Dornan: “You are a freshman. When I was a freshman, I hit the ground running like you, like your whole wonderful nonextremist…”

“You are a freshman. When I was a freshman, I hit the ground running like you, like your whole wonderful nonextremist mainline class. And I loved Tip O'Neill, the Speaker of the House. He sat with me alone in his office for 1 hour with my uncle, Jack Haley, the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, and that Irish actor and that Irish politician were dealing in first names about friends and people they had not seen in 40 and 50 years. But Tip O'Neill indicated to me, for speaking out in the well on the Panama Canal and the B-1 bomber, and on three issues he told me he disliked, this is Tip O'Neill, ``Man of the House,'' I just mentioned his book, abortion, busing, and Koreagate. Koreagate, if you recall, way before your time, was a scandal with people going around here with bags of money corrupting Congressmen and, of course, it was uncomfortable to him. But to not talk about it would have been blindsiding the American people. Busing was a cultural issue that was tearing communities apart.”