voice. more with angela yrrye sunda y on c-span. wassnbc s chris matthews the featured speaker at gerald r. ford years journalism awards. he spoke about his relationship with tip o neill. and talked about some of the mistakes made by president obama and mitt romney. this is 40 minutes. ford president said, i have a lot of adversaries but no enemies i can remember. one of four political adversaries was tip o neill, a liberal democrat. despite their political differences, tip o neill and ford were friends. the gerald r. ford presidential foundation will be honoring that foriendship tonight. tip o neill was speaker of the house until 1987. he hired our luncheon speaker to be his press secretary. chris matthews was born in philadelphia and graduated from the college of holy cross. he served in the peace corps from 1968-1970. after coming to washington, chris matthews worked as a u.s. capitol policeman before working for democratic members of congress and as a speechwriter fo