    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 1 (Monday, January 10, 1994)]
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    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Statement on the Death of Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.

    January 6, 1994

        The Nation mourns the loss of our beloved former Speaker of the
    House, Thomas P. ``Tip'' O'Neill, Jr.
        As U.S. House Speaker, Tip O'Neill was the Nation's most prominent,
    powerful, and loyal champion of working people. He loved politics and
    government because he saw how politics and government could make a
    difference in people's lives. And he loved people most of all--his
    neighbors, his constituents, and his family.
        Last fall, Tip was generous to me with his advice and his stature
    when he joined our effort to win approval of the North American Free
    Trade Agreement. His stand moved me, because working people had been the
    cause of his long and colorful career, and in his heart he knew that
    more open trade would mean a better quality of life for working
    Americans.
        On a day of sadness for my family and Tip's, Hillary and I wish his
    wife, Millie, and their family our deepest sympathies for a husband and
    a father now gone and for a beautiful life well lived.