President. when I came to this Hill as a Member of the House. Speaker McCormack was my mentor and his colleague from Cambridge my compatriot. "TIP" and I sat next to each other on the Rules Committee for a number of years and it was from him that I learned "The Rules of the Road" of poet John Boyle OReilly. wisdominrhyme which has served me in good stead. Although from opposite ends of this great country of ours. we recognized ourselves in each other: "workandwage Democrats" of immigrant stock who had come up the hard way. gaining our political experience in our respective State and territorial houses. In the early days of this decade through the medium of television the Speaker was portrayed as a political practitioner of another era and for a while that false image took hold. With time. however. his moral example and staying power convince his fellow countrymen that he is. indeed. a man of all seasons for whom the art of politics does not preclude the corporal works of mercy nor denies that government can be an instrument in their performance.
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