act and he did this on many issues. he raised taxes to reduce the deficit after the regan tax cuts, blew a bigger hole in the deficit than people expected. he was willing to kind of make an independent judgment outside of the lines of, you know, just simply party loyalty plus he was a brilliant whit. unless my memory is totally screwed up, i was on meet the press with tim russert as one of the two questions on the day bob dole passed hubert heumphry as the most frequent guest in 1994 and i remember him lingering with absolutely kind of brilliant withering putdowns of everybody in both parties and of course, you remember his famous line at the regan funeral describing ford, carter and nixon as see no evil, hear no evil and evil. evil. yeah. i want to ask more about that. because it was interesting. he was well-known to be like one of the funniest members of the