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Article: The soul of Dole. (Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 22, 1985
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I HAVE A VERY high record of support for the President," Robert Dole said after his election as Majority Leader, "but I also understand the separation between the Senate and the White House. It's got to be a two-way street."
"I think he'll try to help the Administration," an aide to the Republican leadership commented, "but I don't think he'll be the Administration's point man. . . . He'll work from his own intuition."
Given his position and his ambitions, it is important to know what Robert Dole's intuition is.
Dole's positions on social issues did not receive much testing over the last four years, chiefly because the Reagan Administration did ...