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Velma, it enabled him to win the victories he did for the disabled, for veterans, for the hungry, or for any of the issues of the day that needed negotiation, steady compromise and the vision of americas promise. bob never lost his common sense and famous wit. it was embedded in his nature to deliver that punch line, deadpan, waiting for the light to come up, letting the air out of the partisan balloons. doles manner and influence were so strong, that if i were for something, people thought bob ...

He then went to school in the gi bill. came to washington with a new frontier. bravely voted for civil rights and voting rights in years of the kennedys, linden johnson, and martin luther king, junior. ran for president with gerald ford, and through the ages of nixon, carter, reagan, bush, the clintons, bob was literally the master of the senate. we served together for 25 years. we disagreed, but we were never disagreeable with one another. not one time that i can think of. i found bob to be a m...

Fight, to preserve a free world. and there was bob, shaking every hand, posing for every picture, listening to all the stories and the thanks -- the thanks of a still grateful nation. when elizabeth told us he passed in his sleep, and we all knew that an era had come to an end, my first reaction was one of sadness and grief, losing a dear friend and mentor. then, thinking about it, i think the good lord touched bobs hand and told him it was time to come home, see his folks. there were quite a fe...

David eisenhower, are kansass favorite sons, and they represent the vision and the promise of america. life in our in our state, bold ike, open prairies, wind, always the wind, wheat fields, agriculture, where a man is at the mercy of chance and weather but can still be confident in the dignity of his labor. bobs early life in russell, kansas, where the population hovered around 2,000, included the dust bowl and the great depression. bob characterized russell when addressing the russell high sch...

Finding common ground. in his final message to the nation, bob said that whenever he started a new journey, whenever he started a new journey, the first thing he would do, and i quote, is sit back and watch for a few days. then start standing up for what he thought was right. end of quote. bob was taking his final journey. hes sitting back watching us. now its our job to start standing up for whats right for america. i salute you, my friend. your nation salutes you. and i believe the words of th...

And over the op soigs of many in his own party, and some in mine, he managed to build and create a federal holiday in the name of martin luther king jr. bob dole. bob dole did that. he never forgot where he came from and never forgot what he said to our colleagues about the effort for the king holiday. ill quote. he said, "no first-class democracy can treat people like second-class citizens." no first-class democracy can treat people like second-class citizens. bob didnt hate government. knew pe...

Basic dignity, basic dignity intact. and over the opposition of many in his own party, and some in mine, he managed to build and create a federal holiday in the name of martin luther king, junior. bob dole, bob dole did that. he never forgot where he came from and i never forgot what he said to our colleagues about the effort for the king holiday. i will quote. he said no first class democracy can treat people like second-class citizens. no first class democracy can treat people like second-clas...

Work for folks like him who came up the hard way, just give everybody a chance, joe. just a chance. during the depression bobs parents moved into the basement of their three-room, not three bedroom, but three-room home in russell, kansas so they could rent out the upstairs. bob understood hardship. he had known hardship. and he never forgot it. he never forgot the people as well who sent him to washington. people from russell and from kansas. bob was a man who always did his duty, who lived by a...

Dole, hurled a grenade into an empty nest. he was trying to help when everything changed, and i mean everything changed. his spine was damaged because fire tore across the hills, shattering his body. grievously wounded, he was paralyzed. dragged behind a wall, bob would pass in and out of consciousness, dreaming of home as he lay bleeding in a fox hole for nearly nine hours. he was 21 years old. decades on, we gather here in a world far different from the mountainous battlefield in 1945, but the...

Absolutely true story. god, i loved the guy. he was always honest. but bob relished a good political fight as much as anybody ive ever served with in the 36 years i was in the senate, and bob gave his good or better than he got. he was a proud republican. he chaired his party. he led his caucus in the united states senate, and he bore the banner as the nominee for vice president and president of the united states. he could be partisan, and that was fine. americans have been partisan since jeffer...