BOB DOLE IS EIGHTY-EIGHT; AND A LOOK BACK AT BUDGET CUTS AND TAXES UNDER RONALD REAGAN

BOB DOLE 

b. July 22, 1923 

Senators ROBERT J. DOLE (R-Kansas) [l] 

& RUSSELL B. LONG (D-Louisiana) [r] 

As published in Business Week, July 19, 1982, p. 52 

For the moment I will stint on Senator Dole's distinguished biography, beginning with his service in World War II and lasting through six terms in the Senate, one vice-presidential nomination and one for president.   His official web site can be found here. 

What is striking, given what is going on in Washington this very moment, is what Business Week wrote (July 19, 1982) about the story that occasioned this photograph (Dole was then Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Long the ranking minority leader and former chair): 

In crafting a tax bill that would raise $21 billion next year, Senate Republicans have taken a page from Ronald Reagan's political strategy book. To win approval of budget cuts for this year and last, Reagan largely spared programs that benefit the middle class. The Senate Finance Committee has drafted a tax bill that mainly hits business and well-to-do individuals, while leaving the politically potent middle class largely untouched.