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  Bob Dole
Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923), is a former United States Representative and Senator from Kansas.
Dole was then elected as a Republican to the Eighty-Seventh Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961 - January 3, 1969).
Dole's wife, Elizabeth Dole, 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.
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 Bob Dole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dole was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in his hometown in 1952.
In 1960, Dole was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for the 87th Congress and to three succeeding Congresses, spanning from January 3, 1961 to January 3, 1969.
Dole married Phyllis Holden, an occupational therapist at a Veterans Hospital, in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1948.
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 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.
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 Bob Dole
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22, 1923) is best known as a former Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election.
Dole was twice decorated for heroism, receiving two Purple Hearts for his injuries, and the Bronze Star Medal with combat "V" for valor for his attempt to assist a downed radio man.
Dole was the early front runner for the GOP nomination in the 1996 presidential race.
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 Robert J. Dole: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
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 Bob Dole
Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923), is a former Representative and Senator from Kansas.
He is best known as being the Majority Leader of the Senate and later as a 1996 presidential candidate, a presidential race in which he lost in a landslide.
Dole married Phyllis Holden, an occupational therapist at a Veterans Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan, in June 1948.
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 Midwest Today: Bob Dole's Road to the Waffle House
Dole's former investment advisor, called her investment in a real estate partnership, "a pure shelter deal." Owen later served a federal prison sentence for filing false tax returns unrelated to the Doles.
Dole bought about 4% of a tax shelter for $174,000, of which $156,000 was a loan from the partnership.
Dole has chosen as his running mate a man, Jack Kemp, who was healthy enough to be a professional quarterback, but was excused from serving in Vietnam due to an injured shoulder.
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 Bob Dole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dole was born and raised in Russell, Kansas.
Dole's study of law at KU was interrupted by the start of World War II.
Dole is special counsel at the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm of Alston and Bird.
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 Bob Dole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) is best known as a former Republican United States Senate Majority Leader and Senator from Kansas from 1969-1996.
Dole was twice decorated for heroic achievement, receiving two Purple Hearts for his injuries, and the Bronze Star Medal for his attempt to assist a downed radio man.
Dole promising a 15% across-the-board reduction in income tax rates, and making former Congressman and supply side hero Jack Kemp his running mate; these, however, failed to inspire the voting population.
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 Bob Dole Summary
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.
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 Dole, Bob - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was chairman of the Republican National Committee (1971-73), and in 1976 Dole was President Gerald Ford 's running mate.
Dole served as majority leader of the Senate (1985-87, 1995-96) and as minority leader (1987-95), gaining a reputation as a pragmatic conservative with an acerbic wit.
In June, 1996, Dole resigned from the Senate in order to devote more time to the presidential race, and in August he chose Jack Kemp as his running mate.
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 Bob Dole - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for dole
Dole, Bob (Robert Joseph Dole), 1923-, American political leader, b.
In medieval times doles were usually from bequests of money or land, and the income was given to charity or distributed to the local poor at funerals.
Dole's war record: the first casualty of politics is truth.(presidential candidate Bob Dole)(includes related article on Dole's reluctant entry into the military)(Cover Story)
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 Bob Dole information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22, 1923) is best known as a former Republican United States Senate Majority Leader and Senator from Kansas from 1969-1996.
In April of 1945, while Dole was fighting the German Wehrmacht in the hills of Northern Italy, he was hit by enemy machine gun fire in his upper right back.
Dole had a moderate voting record and was widely considered to be one of the few Republicans who could bridge the gap between the moderate and conservative wings of the Kansas Republican Party.
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 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Senator Bob Dole
In his speech after the award, Senator Dole said "our challenge is not to question American ideals or to replace them, but to act worthy of them." At the same ceremony today at the White House, Mr.
Dole called Medal of Honor recipient Jack Lucas to the stage from his front-row seat.
Former Sen. Bob Dole points out the Medal of Honor worn by Robert Maxwell, Bend, Ore. "Now there's a hero," Dole said as he and Maxwell joined other World War II veterans and dignitaries Monday at a luncheon at the Circle S Ranch north of Lawrence.
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 ABILITY Magazine | Interview with Bob Dole by Chet Cooper
Dole called Roosevelt a "disability hero." Dole, as a champion of the ADA himself, was a fitting speaker to describe FDR as not only the first elected leader in history with a disability but one who sought changes in legislation and social attitudes towards persons with disabilities.
Dole was one of the advocates of the passage of the ADA and continues today to support progress in protecting and empowering persons with disabilities through the ADA legislation.
Dole has been known for having a kind of good, quick, dry humor that is said to be expressly a Kansan way of wit.
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 Dole
Dole's awards are numerous, ranging from honors for civic service and leadership in government to accolades for her charitable commitments and dedication to issues surrounding women in the workplace.
Dole was honored by the League of Women Voters as the recipient of the Leadership Award in 1994, and in 1995 she received the Raoul Wallenberg Award for Humanitarian Service.
In 1997, Dole was honored by Glamour magazine as a Woman of the Year and by Redbook as a recipient of the "Solutions for Tomorrow" award for her work as president of the Red Cross.
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 Honorary Board - The Honorable Bob Dole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Robert Joseph Dole was born in Russell, Kan., in 1923.
In 1950, Dole was elected as a Republican representative to the Kansas state legislature.
Dole made another bid for his party's nomination to the presidency in 1988 but was defeated by George Bush.
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 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.
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 AllRefer.com - Bob Dole (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
In 1960 he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives and served four terms (1961–69); he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1968.
He was chairman of the Republican National Committee (1971–73), and in 1976 Dole was President Gerald Ford's running mate.
Dole served as majority leader of the Senate (1985–87, 1995–96) and as minority leader (1987–95), gaining a reputation as a pragmatic conservative with an acerbic wit.
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Bob Dole has been called a “towering figure” and “the most enduring Republican leader of the twentieth century” but he still calls Russell, Kansas, his home.
He was born Robert Joseph Dole on July 22, 1923, in Russell to Doran and Bina (Talbott) Dole.
To support their family Doran operated the Dole Produce, just south of the railroad tracks, and his wife sold sewing machines door-to-door.
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 Dole, Bob (Robert Joseph)
He retired from politics in 1996 and became a special counsel to a Washington law firm.
Dole was born in Kansas, the son of a Methodist trader.
He was severely wounded in Italy during World War II, permanently losing the use of his right arm.
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 The Bob Dole Story
Bob Dole has been called "a towering figure" and "the most enduring Republican leader of the twentieth century." But like many of our greatest leaders, Bob Dole had the humblest of beginnings.
Robert Joseph Dole was born on July 22, 1923 in a small plains town in western Kansas called Russell.
In those early years, when times were tough and money was short, Bob Dole learned the value of hard work, the worth of a dollar earned and the need to be financially responsible.
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 Robert Dole
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 Dole — FactMonster.com
Wherein, happy man be his dole, I trust that I Shall not speed worst, and that very quickly.
dole - dole, distribution to the poor, usually of food or money.
Sanford Ballard Dole - Dole, Sanford Ballard, 1844–1926, Hawaiian statesman, b.
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In 1971 Senator Dole rocketed to national prominence as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and in l976 President Gerald Ford announced on the Russell County Courthouse lawn that Bob would be his Vice Presidential running mate.
On January 17, 1997 Senator Bob Dole was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony.
Today, Senator Dole is senior advisor to the Washington, DC law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand.
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 Bob Dole Biography (Political Figure) — FactMonster.com
Extra credit: Dole is married to Elizabeth Dole, who ran as a Republican candidate for president in 2000.
Bob Dole - Dole, Bob (Robert Joseph Dole), 1923–, American political leader, b.
Elizabeth Hanford Dole - Dole, Elizabeth Hanford, 1936–, American public official, b.
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