The death of Bob Dole at the age of 98 this week has reminded the country of just how much

Washington and the Republican Party has changed since the days he ruled the Roost as Senate

majority later.

Although a stalwart partisan who is once known as Richard Nixon's hatchet man, Dole also

believed firmly that politics and government had a purpose, to get things done, to pass

legislation that actually made a difference in the lives of voters.

Instead of it meant, as it almost always did, reaching out to the other side, listening

and respecting what they had to say, and forging compromises.

It's an approach that seems almost entirely far into capital life these days where hot-headed

partisans on both sides spend their time going on cable TV, lobbying blistering attacks

against their political foes, and depicting their very existence as threats to the future

of the Republic.

What has changed in American politics?

How did we go from a Congress who once had leaders such as Bob Dole to today, where figures

like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Warren Boerth suck up media oxygen?

We'll talk to somebody who knew Dole well and how politics was played then and now.

Veteran GOP strategist Scott Reed, who managed Dole's 1996 campaign for president on this

episode of Skull Duggery.

Hi, do solemnly swear.

And I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States.

And will to the best of my building.

Reserve, protect and defend.

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