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I knew from a close aide to Dan Rostenkowski, who died yesterday at his lake house in Wisconsin, that the man who was among the most powerful to walk the halls of Congress was battling lung cancer. He kept his illness private, and, with the exception of one Chicago columnist, local reporters went along.

Rosty had never smoked, but his wife did, and then there were all those smoke-filled rooms from the days when Lyndon Johnson held sway as majority leader, president and confidant of Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

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