George Bush welcomed the incoming speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in the Oval Office today. And that reminded us of an earlier meeting between a gaffe-prone GOP president and a wisecracking Democratic speaker. Click the video screen to be transported back to 1981, when Ronald Reagan made an interesting comment to then-Speaker Tip O'Neill.

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