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Dole Voices Pride in '65 Anti-Medicare Vote

The Washington Post | October 26, 1995 | Copyright

In a speech to the American Conservative Union, Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) declared Tuesday he was one of 12 House members who voted against creating Medicare in 1965 "because we knew it wouldn't work."

"I was there, fighting the fight, voting against Medicare . . . because we knew it wouldn't work in 1965," said Dole, the front- runner for the GOP presidential nomination.

Democrats yesterday seized on Dole's statement and on one by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to support their argument that Republicans are out to destroy the Medicare program through…

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