Jack Kemp, GOP's Supply-Side Radical, Dies

Jack Kemp, GOP's Supply-Side Radical, Dies - TIME

Former Congressman Jack Kemp, who died Saturday at age 73 after a bout with cancer, was the Republican party's top cheerleader for tax cuts for nearly a generation.

Handsome, energetic and almost heroically optimistic, Kemp was also a man that many tax-cutting conservatives believed was the only proper legatee to Ronald Reagan. (Read the TIME Cover Story: "Dole, Kemp and the G.O.P.")

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