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O'Neill is admired and mourned in my hometown of Pittsburgh, where he contributed greatly to environmental, cultural, and social causes. (And architecture. The "new" Alcoa headquarters, on the Allegheny River shore just across from downtown, is a masterpiece.) I remember reading that on the day he was dismissed as Treasury Secretary, he and his wife got in the car and drove home to Pittsburgh with a sense of relief. Home.

He was a selfless man, one of a vanishing breed of moderate Republicans, who served others and makes us better.