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Text that appears in UPPER CASE identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. MR. KERRY. MR. PRESIDENT, WOMEN HAVE MADE GREAT ADVANCES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE IN RECENT YEARS. LAST YEAR WITNESSED A HISTORIC TURNING POINT -- THE NOMINATION OF GERALDINE FERRARO BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. TODAY, 2 WOMEN SERVE AS MEMBERS OF THE U.S. SENATE, AND 23 WOMEN ARE MEMBERS OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THESE NUMBERS INDICATE PROGRESS, BUT THEY ALSO INDICATE HOW FAR WE HAVE TO...

<p>Without Donald Regan's strength and loyalty, Ronald Reagan would have been a less successful president.</p> <p>After Mr. Regan was nominated as Treasury secretary by President-elect Reagan, he asked me to stop by to see him. He would need a strong supply-side team, he said, if he was to succeed in his task of getting Mr. Reagan's controversial new economic policy out of the administration and through Congress.</p>

<p>Donald T. Regan, who gladdened conservatives' hearts as President Reagan's chief of staff, died of cancer yesterday at 84.</p> <p>In a White House that had its share of palace intrigue and backbiting, Mr. Regan managed to hold two top jobs before falling victim to first lady Nancy Reagan's animosity in the second term of the Reagan presidency.</p>

<p>The recent debate over President Bush's tax proposal had so many echoes of the Reagan era that I could almost recite the parts of the various players from memory. Amid all the clamor, few have stepped back--as President Reagan did in 1981--and asked three basic questions: Where are we, where do we need to go, and how are we going to get there? Unfortunately, we have no GPS that could pinpoint where we are and how to navigate from here to there.</p>

<p>He was blunt. He was rude. He was arrogant. He was in your face, but always "to" your face. And, in a Washington world that kowtowed to power, he kowtowed to nobody.</p> <p>He had a famous Irish temper, but a wicked Irish grin.</p>