There are times when the passing of a public figure is hard to read about. The passing of Jack Kemp is one of those times.
The Associated Press is reporting:
Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative," died Saturday. He was 73.
Kemp died after a lengthy illness, according to spokeswoman Bona Park and Edwin J. Feulner, a longtime friend and former campaign adviser. Park said Kemp died at his home in Bethesda, Md., in the Washington suburbs.
Kemp had announced in January 2009 that he had been diagnosed with cancer. He said he was undergoing tests but gave no other details.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called Kemp "one of the nation's most distinguished public servants. Jack was a powerful voice in American politics for more than four decades."
Kemp was one of the gurus of the Reagan era. He championed the supply-side economic policies in congress that rescued the country from the Jimmy Carter malaise years.
Rest in peace, Jack.
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