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Washington Is Sorely Missing the Legislative Genius of Howard Baker

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The former Senate majority leader, who died this week at 88, took pride in being an insider who got things done. He didn’t go in for hard-core partisan fighting. And he valued civility.

James Andrew Miller
James Andrew Miller
James Andrew Miller

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