FILE - In this June 25, 1986 file photo, President Ronald Reagan, center, joins hands with Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev. left, and Senate candidate Jim Santini during a fundraising dinner for Santini in Las Vegas. Former Nevada Rep. Jim Santini, who served four terms in Congress as a Democrat in the 1970s and 1980s, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015 after being diagnosed with advanced-stage esophageal cancer. He was 78. Santini's daughter, Lori Egbers, said her father died peacefully at a hospice center in Rockville, Maryland, where he had been staying since last week.(AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)