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  Bob Dole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dole was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in his hometown in 1952.
Dole was the early frontrunner for the GOP nomination in the 1996 presidential race, and was expected to represent the party establishment against the more conservative Senator Phil Gramm of Texas.
Dole married Phyllis Holden, an occupational therapist at a Veterans Hospital, in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1948.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Dole   (1619 words)

  
 Dole's War Record
Dole's first wound, in the night patrol, was self-inflicted (a story the candidate once told himself), but that fact does not appear in an extremely laudatory profile the G.O.P. distributes with a cover letter by Dole.
Dole writes that in the course of the attack various members of his platoon were hit, and he threw a grenade at the machine-gun nest, then dove into a shell hole for protection.
Dole was promoted to first lieutenant in April 1946 and to captain in February 1947 even though he had been undergoing operations and rehabilitation in hospitals for the past two years.
www.tedellis.net /dole-article.htm   (3304 words)

  
 Robert J. Dole
In 1968, Dole was elected to the Senate.
Dole's distinguished political career includes serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee during the Nixon administration, being selected as Gerald Ford's vice presidential running mate, and, from 1984 to 1986, and 1994 to 1996 being elected by his Republican colleagues as Senate majority leader.
Dole says "Involvement in one's family, community, government, and country is the responsibility of every American of every age.
www.horatioalger.com /members/member_info.cfm?memberid=dol88   (553 words)

  
 Why Dole can't do it. (Robert Dole) - Encyclopedia.com
Dole has presented himself to New Hampshire voters once before, in the Republican primary of 1980, though, as he acknowledged, that experience would not be much use to them now.
Dole the autobiographer has a problem, which is that he was a war hero.
Dole was elected to a term in the Kansas House in 1950, while he was still in law school (if he didn't know anything about politics, he picked it up awfully quickly).
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-6145325.html   (2638 words)

  
 Bob Dole -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dole was the early frontrunner for the GOP nomination in the (Click link for more info and facts about 1996 presidential race) 1996 presidential race, and was expected to represent the party establishment against the more conservative Senator (Click link for more info and facts about Phil Gramm) Phil Gramm of Texas.
It was widely acknowledged to be Dole's last political campaign, and he entered retirement at age 72 as the (An elderly statesman whose advice is sought be government leaders) elder statesman of the GOP.
Dole is married to Senator (Click link for more info and facts about Elizabeth Dole) Elizabeth Dole of (A state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies) North Carolina.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bob_dole.htm   (1321 words)

  
 Robert J. Dole
Robert Joseph Dole was born on July 22, 1923 in Russell, Kansas, a small plains town.
Finally, in 1996, Dole was given the Republican presidential nominee, though he was led to a defeat by President Bill Clinton, who seemed destined to win reelection from the start, as the Democratic Party had painted the Republicans as uncaring.
Dole showed his desperate attempt to win when he, on the final days of the campaign, asked third party challenger Ross Perot to drop out of the race and endorse him as a candidate.
www.course-notes.org /biographies/robertjosephdole.htm   (620 words)

  
 Robert Dole - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
As Chairman of the National World War II Memorial, Dole led the nation in honoring the heroes of his generation and helped enshrine their legacy of sacrifice for freedom.
Bob Dole was raised on the plains of western Kansas.
Senator Dole's effectiveness as a consensus-builder and his commitment to deficit reduction and economic growth have earned him the admiration of Republicans, Independents and Democrats alike.
www.leadingauthorities.com /23447/Robert_Dole.htm   (778 words)

  
 The People & The Power Game: Interview with Robert Dole
DOLE: Well of course Rick says it wasn't aimed directly at Hatfield it was aimed at Connie Mack and it was aimed at how we're going to treat these things in the future.
DOLE : I think Clinton had a big shock when the Republicans took over the Congress because he had never dealt with a -- you know, Arkansas is pretty much a one party state at the state legislative level.
DOLE: Where we broke down-- on policy, how are we going to save medicare, how are we going to reduce medicaid, how are we going to send welfare back to the states.
www.hedricksmith.com /site_powergame/files/dole.html   (1320 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Bob Dole Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dole was then elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh United States Congress and to three succeeding Congresses, spanning from January 3, 1961 to January 3, 1969.
Among the books Dole has written is one on jokes told by the presidents of the United States, in which he classifies presidents according to their humorousness.
He married Elizabeth Hanford in 1975; she later ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for President in 2000 and was elected to the United States Senate representing North Carolina in 2002.
www.ipedia.com /bob_dole.html   (624 words)

  
 Robert "Bob" Dole
Dole was immediately given morphine by an Army field medic to alleviate the pain, and his forehead was marked with an "M" in his own blood to alert medics.
Dole waited nine long hours on the Italian battlefield before he was finally taken to the Fifteenth Evacuation Hospital.
Bob Dole was twice decorated for heroic achievement, receiving two Purple Hearts for his injuries, and the Bronze Star Medal for his attempt to assist the downed radio man.
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 News from the Dole Institute
The Dole Institute, established at KU in 1997 to honor the former Kansas senator, is designed to foster new thinking on major policy issues and encourage student participation and citizen involvement in public service.
Smith, who worked for Dole in the 1970s as his speechwriter, collaborated with Dole and his wife, Elizabeth, on their 1988 joint autobiography and also assisted Dole on his two recent books on political humor.
Dole, a Russell native, served four terms in the U.S. House and five terms in the U.S. Senate from Kansas.
www.ku.edu /~dole/news/director.html   (734 words)

  
 Robert J. Dole Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Dole served as a member of the six-person Kansas House delegation for one term, survived the 1960 reapportionment--which cost the state one seat--in his second race, and was re-elected twice more.
Dole won the support of Western and Midwestern voters but was widely criticized as Ford's "hatchet man." He and Governor Jimmy Carter's vice presidential candidate, Senator Walter Mondale, participated in the explosive and precedent-setting first vice presidential debate at Houston, Texas, in October.
Dole was part of negotiations for a NATO peace agreement with Serbian officials in March of 1999 over their plans to force ethnic Albanians from the Yugoslav province of Kosovo.
www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-j-dole   (1851 words)

  
 Robert Dole
One of America's wittiest public figures, Bob Dole served his country as senator and veteran, proving himself both a consummate leader and a brilliant consensus-builder.
Dole ushers audiences into the midst of the most complicated of issues using the most delightful and charming of methods -- wit and intelligence.
As someone who's been on the national political stage for decades, Dole instinctively understands leadership and the principles that govern it -- principles he shares with audiences in a compelling and humorous presentation.
www.nmplive.co.uk /cse/robertdole.html   (218 words)

  
 Robert Dole's epitaph
Robert Dole, caught in the tidal-wave of his own stupidity and mismanagement, concluding his career in epic proportions.
Bob Dole, straddling the middle of the two, could mend fences and fuse the bonds of different, and sometimes opposed, wings which could then start a modern day voting coalition bent on rivaling FDR's New Deal.
However, with Dole's political death, in a rather loud and messy fashion, the GOP is running candidates who are running against the GOP.
www.jhu.edu /~newslett/11-01-96/Opinions/Robert_Dole's_epitaph.html   (740 words)

  
 The People & The Power Game: Interview with Robert Dole
DOLE: Well of course Rick says it wasn't aimed directly at Hatfield it was aimed at Connie Mack and it was aimed at how we're going to treat these things in the future.
DOLE : I think Clinton had a big shock when the Republicans took over the Congress because he had never dealt with a -- you know, Arkansas is pretty much a one party state at the state legislative level.
DOLE: Where we broke down-- on policy, how are we going to save medicare, how are we going to reduce medicaid, how are we going to send welfare back to the states.
hedricksmith.com /site_powergame/files/dole.html   (1320 words)

  
 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Senator Bob Dole
Robert Joseph Dole, political leader and statesman, of Russell, Kansas was born in Russell on July 22, 1923, the eldest son of Doran R. and Bina Talbott Dole.
Dole was elected to the Kansas Legislature in 1950 and served in the House of Representatives from 1951 to 1953.
Dole was the Republican candidate for President of the US in 1996, and Republican candidate for Vice President in 1976.
www.medaloffreedom.com /BobDole.htm   (1549 words)

  
 Bob Dole - dKosopedia
In 1960, Dole was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 87th Congress and to three succeeding Congresses, spanning from January 3, 1961 to January 3, 1969.
Dole was defeated by Bill Clinton in the 1996 election.
Dole married Phyllis Holden, an occupational therapist at a Veterans Hospital, in Battle Creek, Michigan in 19]].
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Bob_Dole   (604 words)

  
 In June 1986, Senator Robert ("Bob") Dole of Kansas was the Republican Majority leader in the US Senate
Dole, by the way, as President of the American Red Cross, appears to have done more than her share of mischief in seeking to prevent the free flow of medical supplies to the general population of Yugoslavia, or to the Serb population in Bosnia, while supplies flood into Kosovo for Albanian relief.
Dole has been in league with the fascist enemies of the US and their children in abetting the erection of a neo-fascist state in Croatia and a state headed by an identified Nazi youth leader, Alija Izetbegovic, in Bosnia.
Dole no longer enjoys the protective cloak of a Senate seat, this might be a fairly clear case for prosecution under the Logan Act, which prohibits US citizens from interfering in the domestic affairs of other nations.
www.siri-us.com /backgrounders/Archives_Kosovo/KLA-Dole-Kos-Res.150_6-86.html   (11593 words)

  
 Bob Dole - SourceWatch
Robert Joseph Dole (1923-), commonly referred to as Bob Dole is a senior counselor for the global PR firm APCO Worldwide and special counsel in Alston and Bird's Washington, D.C. office.
Dole is also "a member of the Legislative and Public Policy Group, a group dedicated to helping clients navigate the intricacies of the laws and regulations passed by Congress, the White House and the courts."[5]
Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas; see 6News: Dole says new institute to be monument to Kansas, July 22, 2003.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Bob_Dole   (673 words)

  
 Welcome to the Archive
The Robert J. Dole Archive at the University of Kansas is one of the nation's most significant collections of papers and artifacts relating to politics in the 20th Century.
The related papers and oral histories of Dole staffers (over 900 individuals between 1961 and 1996) and other close associates who played an important part in Senator Dole's career and campaigns are included in the collection.
Senator Dole's extensive legislative career and his many leadership roles in the Republican Party make this collection among the largest groupings of one politician's papers outside of the presidential library system.
www.doleinstitute.org /archives   (332 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Robert Dole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dole and Clinton's debates were highly anticipated, as Clinton was viewed as a weak incumbant and Dole a Neo-Reagen Era Conservative.
Dole is married to Senator Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina.
She was named Elizabeth Hanford when they married in 1975.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Dole   (813 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Robert Dole Profile -- June 4, 1979
The last time that Robert Dole stood on such a platform in his home town was in 1976, when he and Gerald Ford kicked off their campaign to win the White House for the Republicans.
Dole himself jerked sodas at the drugstore and starred as a high school athlete until signing up for a pre-med course at the University of Kansas.
Dole was now well known in Republican circles as a conservative, given one of the highest ratings by the right-wing Americans for Constitutional Action.
www.pbs.org /newshour/convention96/retro/dole.html   (922 words)

  
 Robert Dole, Bob, Professional Speaker Leadership and Values
Robert Dole has been called "a towering figure" and "the most enduring Republican leader of the twentieth century." He has a distinguished record of public service that has made a tremendous positive impact on America.
Dole's political career has spanned decades and has included the state legislature, county attorney, the House of Representatives, Junior Senator and Minority Leader of the Senate as well as Senator.
Robert Dole is the author of "Great Political Wit" and "Great Presidential Wits," have made the best selling list in newspapers and he is an active writer of opinion pieces for major national newspapers and a frequent guest on national television, on major talk shows and news programs.
www.goldstars.com /speakers/dole_robert.html   (408 words)

  
 The Dope on Dole By Robert Shrum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dole's anti-drug slogan aside, the narrator informs us, he voted "to cut the president's school anti-drug efforts." With that, the grim Dole returns in fl and white, and we're told that he voted against the creation of a drug czar.
Her gaze reproaches Dole not only for this vote, but for all we have seen and heard in the spot.
Dole's Real Record successfully broadens the issues beyond drugs and asks, "Which candidate is more caring?" As the spot unspools, its strategy becomes clear: When you make a response ad, don't do just drugs.
slate.msn.com /id/1587   (533 words)

  
 Interview with Robert Dole
In 1923 Robert Dole was born in Russell, Kansas.
Dole has now retired from an active political career and is currently serving as legal counsel in a Washington D.C. law firm.
Dole] be resident in North Carolina, and we’ll live part of the time in Washington.
members.tripod.com /faces_places/2nd_Class/AngelaMeyer/BobDoleInterview.htm   (2708 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Robert Dole Profile -- June 4, 1979
ROBERT PERKINS: Well, fundraising is always a challenge for any candidate, and like any campaign, we're working hard to fund the necessary component of our campaign.
I think that Bob Dole is his best asset; he's established record in the House and Senate and as a vice presidential candidate.
ROBERT MACNEIL: I was thinking that some conservative fundraisers have been very successful by raising funds on issues that appeal to conservative voters, regardless of the person attached to the issues, and I was just wondering if it was the issues that the Senator stands for that is bringing the money in.
www.pbs.org /newshour/convention96/retro/dole_staff.html   (1166 words)

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