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Bob Dole, Dante, and Clueless Message Boarders

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Dole was the leader of the Senate Republicans, serving as Majority Leader from 1985 until 1987 and again from 1995 to 1996. Dole served as Minority Leader from 1987 to 1995.

1994 Dole eventually won the GOP Presidential nomination, becoming the oldest first-time presidential nominee at the age of 73 years.

Bob Dole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bob Dole compliments Al Gore

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Joseph Dole
United States Senator
from Kansas
In office
January 3, 1969 – June 11, 1996
Preceded by Frank Carlson
Succeeded by Sheila Frahm
15th United States Senate Majority Leader
In office
January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1987
Preceded by Howard H. Baker, Jr.
Succeeded by Robert Byrd
18th United States Senate Majority Leader
In office
January 3, 1995 – June 11, 1996
Preceded by George J. Mitchell
Succeeded by Trent Lott
15th United States Senate Minority Leader
In office
January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1995
Preceded by Robert Byrd
Succeeded by Tom Daschle
Personal details
Born July 22, 1923 (age 89)
Russell, Kansas, US
Nationality American
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) (1) Phyllis Holden, divorced
(2) Elizabeth Dole
Religion Methodist[1]
Law School Washburn University, 1952

Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) is a former United States Senator from Kansas. He was the Republican leader of the Senate from 1985 until 1996. In 1996, he ran against Bill Clinton for President, and lost. After that, he retired from politics at age 72.

In 1976, President Gerald Ford chose him to be his Vice Presidential choice for the November, 1976 election. They lost the election so Bob Dole never became Vice President.

Shortly after the 1996 election, he famously appeared in a Pepsi commercial, saying, "I just cannot win". He has also done commercials for Viagra.

Bob Dole has a habit of talking in the third person, or using his own name instead of "I" when he talks about himself. This habit is the basis for many jokes about Dole.

An episode of The Simpsons had Bob Dole in it. The episode takes place during the election of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, and they get abducted by aliens.

 

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Bob Dole eventually went on to make erectile dysfunction commercials and became a famed spokesperson for viagra.

High five, Bob !

 

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Funny thing is although Dante admires Bob Dole and is fond of him, Dante remembers Dole being the hatchet man for right wing politics way back in the day.

Who would ever have thought there would come a day when people could say with a straight face...that Bob Dole was a moderate?

Dole's hawkishness on the Vietnam War and on crime issues kept him in good standing with the right wing. When they heard Nixon might make Dole chairman of the Republican National Committee, half the Republican Senators protested, especially moderates who feared Dole would direct party assets to conservatives. They were wrong, as Dole in fact offered something to all Republican factions.

 

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Elizabeth Dole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dole was born Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford in Salisbury, North Carolina, to Mary Ella (née Cathey; 1901–2004) and John Van Hanford (1893–1978).[4][2]

She attended Duke University and is a sister of Delta Delta Delta.[5] She graduated in 1958, and followed that with post-graduate work at Oxford in 1959. After Oxford, she took a job as a student teacher at Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts for the 1959–1960 school year.[6] While teaching, she also pursued her master's degree in education from Harvard University, which she earned in 1960, followed by a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1965. She is an alumna of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and was recognized for being their leading orchid grower several times.

Dole first met her future husband, Senator Bob Dole, in the spring of 1972 at a meeting arranged by her boss and mentor, Virginia Knauer.[7] The couple dated, and she became his second wife on December 6, 1975 in Washington National Cathedral.[1] They have no children, though she is stepmother to Bob's adult daughter Robin from his first marriage of 24 years, which ended in divorce in 1972.

She was the lay leader at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. before joining National Presbyterian Church in 1996.[1]

Dole was born Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford in Salisbury, North Carolina, to Mary Ella (née Cathey; 1901–2004) and John Van Hanford (1893–1978).[4][2]

She attended Duke University and is a sister of Delta Delta Delta.[5] She graduated in 1958, and followed that with post-graduate work at Oxford in 1959. After Oxford, she took a job as a student teacher at Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts for the 1959–1960 school year.[6] While teaching, she also pursued her master's degree in education from Harvard University, which she earned in 1960, followed by a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1965. She is an alumna of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and was recognized for being their leading orchid grower several times.

 

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Dole was born in Russell, Kansas, the son of Bina M. (née Talbott; 1904–1983) and Doran Ray Dole (1901–1975).[4] His father, who had moved the family to Russell while Dole was still a toddler, made a living by running a small creamery. Among his father's customers was the father of Arlen Specter who ran a junkyard in the town and used Dole's scales to weigh junk. Specter, who was six years younger than Dole and graduated Russell High School in 1947, was not a Dole contemporary although Specter's brother Morton Specter and Dole's brother Kenny Dole were friends.[5] During the Great Depression, which hit Kansas very hard, the Dole family moved into the basement of their home and rented out the rest of the house. As a boy, he took many odd jobs around Russell, and he would later work as a soda jerk in the local drug store.



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In 1942, Dole joined the United States Army's Enlisted Reserve Corps to fight in World War II. Dole became a second lieutenant in the Army's 10th Mountain Division. In April 1945, while engaged in combat near Castel d'Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy, Dole was hit by German machine gun fire in his upper right back and his right arm was also badly injured. As Lee Sandlin describes, when fellow soldiers saw the extent of his injuries all they thought they could do was to "give him the largest dose of morphine they dared and write an 'M' for 'morphine' on his forehead in his own blood, so that nobody else who found him would give him a second, fatal dose."[10] The hospital where Dole recovered from his wounds, the former Battle Creek Sanitarium, is now named Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in honor of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and Daniel Inouye.

Dole was decorated three times, receiving two Purple Hearts for his injuries, and the Bronze Star with combat "V" for valor for his attempt to assist a downed radio man.

 

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Dole's legacy also includes a commitment to combating hunger both in the United States and around the glob. In addition to numerous domestic programs, along with former Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota),

 

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dante,

what made you decide to step out of the closet?

 

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Yeah, Bob Dole was a decent man. Your point is what?

 

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dante,

what made you decide to step out of the closet?

moths