What is Tip O'Neill?
{{Infobox officeholder |birthname = Thomas Phillip O'Neill |image = Tip O'Neill 1978.jpg |imagesize = |order = [[List of Speakers of the United States House of Representatives|55th]] |office = Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |term_start = January 4, 1977 |term_end = January 3, 1987 |president = [[Gerald Ford]]<br>[[Jimmy Carter]]<br>[[Ronald Reagan]] |preceded = [[Carl Albert]] |succeeded = [[Jim Wright]] |order2 = [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives|House Majority Leader]] |term_start2 = January 3, 1973 |term_end2 = January 3, 1977 |deputy2 = [[John J. McFall]] |preceded2 = [[Hale Boggs]] |succeeded2 = [[Jim Wright]] |order3 = [[Party whips of the United States House of Representatives|House Majority Whip]] |term_start3 = January 3, 1971 |term_end3 = January 3, 1973 |leader3 = [[Hale Boggs]] |preceded3 = [[Hale Boggs]] |succeeded3 = [[John J. McFall]] |state4 = Massachusetts |district4 = [[Massachusetts's 8th congressional district|8th]] |term_start4 = January 3, 1963 |term_end4 = January 3, 1987 |preceded4 = [[Torbert Macdonald]] |successor4 = [[Joseph Patrick Kennedy II|Joseph P. Kennedy]] |state5 = Massachusetts |district5 = [[Massachusetts's 11th congressional district|11th]] |term_start5 = January 3, 1953 |term_end5 = January 3, 1963 |preceded5 = [[John F. Kennedy]] |succeeded5 = [[James A. Burke]] |office6 = [[Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives]] |predecessor6 = [[Frederick Willis]] |successor6 = [[Charles Gibbons]] |term_start6 = 1949 |term_end6 = 1953 |office7 = Minority Leader of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] |predecessor7 = [[John E. Flaherty]] |successor7 = Charles Gibbons |term_start7 = 1947 |term_end7 = 1949 |birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|12|9}} |birth_place = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] |death_date = {