Word: doled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate's rejection of withholding was a particularly bitter defeat for Dole, who had assailed the banking lobby for calling the plan a "new tax" when it was really designed to catch tax cheaters and collect some $5.2 billion this year from the 20 million people who fail to report fully their interest and dividend income. Dole had filibustered gamely against the repeal bill, which was sponsored by Republican Bob Kasten, a freshman Senator from Wisconsin. But Dole last week could count only 27 other Senators (including 24 of 54 Republicans) on his side, and three of them were...
...into effect. Once the repeal gets out of committee, it is likely to pass easily. Whether Reagan would veto the compromise remained in doubt, but he blasted the Senate action as "quite a triumph for the people who are not paying the taxes they fairly owe." Dole and a few House Democrats have threatened that they may seek new taxes on banks to make up for any revenue lost by a withholding repeal. Said Dole: "I wouldn't break out the champagne yet if I were a banker...
That tentative timetable makes little difference to Democratic candidates, who are already campaigning lustily against Reagan and his policies. But on the G.O.P. side, it immobilizes would-be successors. To stand a realistic chance of winning, such possible contenders as Senators Howard Baker and Robert Dole and Congressman Jack Kemp would need to start organizing and raising money by mid-autumn. Vice President George Bush possesses the remnants of the nationwide network he put together for the 1980 primaries and a basketful of lOUs from Republican congressional candidates for whom he campaigned last fall, and so could start a successful...
Talk of who might follow him, however, brings up the strongest of all evidence that Reagan will run. The President, who clearly enjoys his job, has confided to close aides that he does not see anyone to whom he could confidently entrust the completion of his ideological mission. Baker, Dole or even Bush, he fears, would not be conservative enough; Kemp has the necessary right-wing fervor, but in Reagan's view may not be mature enough yet for the presidency. To White House Deputy Chief of Staff Deaver, the political calculus is clear: "Who else is there...
...Churchly Dole...