"I doubt there's one in a million people who has any idea what's going on here," mused Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole. "And they're probably better off." In the Senate's mysterious manipulation of Ronald Reagan's proposed budget, Dole wound up offering an amendment he actually opposed, and the Republican-controlled Senate seemed to be shredding the very budget package it had worked out with the White House. Conceded Indiana Republican Dan Quayle: "Bit by bit, it's coming unraveled, no two ways about it."
Dole had started the week with a razor-thin victory. Ever since Reagan went on television last month to argue...
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