In recent years, I’ve looked back every December at the passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, enacted in December of that year.

I was there, practicing charity and estate-planning law and writing my monthly newsletter. I worked with charities informing the Congress—Ways & Means and Senate Finance Committee members and their staffs, and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation—on the importance of private giving for the public good. And as a young lawyer, I was excited to go to the White House together with a college president to meet with a presidential adviser.

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