Former Representative Dan Rostenkowski talked about his career serving Illinois, including 36 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He chaired the House Ways and Means Committee from 1981 to 1994. Topics included his time serving in the leadership of the House of Representatives and dealing with the Senate leadership, including former Senator Robert Dole (R-KS).
This never-before-aired interview with historian Richard Norton Smith is part of an oral history project at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. The location of this April 1, 2008, interview is not known.