"Hardball" Chris Matthews was recently in Ireland to receive a Tip O'Neill award. A story is told of O'Neill visiting the land of his ancestors at which time the community was planning a drive to build a new hospital and asked Tip if he wanted to contribute. He gave them a check for $5000. and the next day the local paper announced he was donating $50,000. and while they apologized for the editing error he knew he was on the hook. So he asked them to return the $5000. check and sat down and signed a new one for the $50,000. with one stipulation that he could coin the phrase to be engraved over the hospital entrance. They readily agreed and he wrote "I was a stranger and you took me in."
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