They let him in. he knelt down next to reagan s bed. he was in bad shape. he held both of reagan s hands and they recited the 23rd psalm together. then he kissed him on the forehead. it was not long, only a couple minutes apparently. reagan said, thanks for coming, tip. it was to me a humanity statement. we need them. a statement of humanity, of christianity in this case. i checked with his daughter susan, who s a pal of mine. she said he definitely news the lord is my shepherd, he knew that psalm. what s so amazing is i listen to you talk about this. you lived in this era. do you sometimes pinch yourself and say i was part of all this? no, i was on the plane with president carter. it s in the book. it starts the book off. when we get beaten by reagan. i m sitting there when we get the word, you guys are going to lose by ten points.
Had a deal. at 6:00, it ends. when i first met reagan, my office was 209. we re friends at 6:00 no matter what happened before 6:00. the best thing is reagan said that to me personally first time i met him. mr. president, welcome to the room where we plot against you. just to break the ice. not after 6:00. speaker says we re friends after 6:00. he said it to me. the most wonderful story is when reagan was shot and it was worse than anybody thought. white house was smart to keep it low key. he lost half of his blood internally. the bullet was here. jim baker brought tip in to be the first guy to meet him. he kneeled down next to his gurney. he held hands and they recited the 23rd psalm together. you re tired now. he was shocked at the moment.
Year, tip goes into the room, there s no one else in the hospital room but reagan who s barely alive, and one other guy who told me what happened. tip went into the room and kneeled down next to ronald reagan, this old man and another old man almost dead, kissed him, held his hand and they recited the 23rd psalm together. even when you disagree with someone at the other end of the football field to use a nice reference, that that person is as american as you are, they have a different view of things. and have you to be, as ronald reagan once reminded me personally, tip always says we re friends after 6:00. if you don t accept that common citizenship, i don t think you should be on television, radio or anywhere. if you think the other side is evil, you re part of the problem. now, i think we hear a lot of that today, and maybe that s going to bother some people. it s easier for me or you i think we re both somewhere
Kneeled down next to ronald reagan, this old man and another old man almost dead, kissed him, held his hand and they recited the 23rd psalm together. even when you disagree with someone at the other end of the football field to use a nice reference, that that person is as american as you are, they have a different view of things. and have you to be, as ronald reagan once reminded me personally, tip always says we re friends after 6:00. if you don t accept that common citizenship, i don t think you should be on television, radio or anywhere. if you think the other side is evil, you re part of the problem. now, i think we hear a lot of that today, and maybe that s going to bother some people. it s easier for me or you i think we re both somewhere between the 40 yard lines, it s easier for us to see things in perspective. if you went into the field, it s harder to accept the humanity of someone at the other end. i don t know about that. but i know that tip o neill could see that ronald