mccain to work for great people. >> i've been thinking today we're not just saying good-bye to bob dole. i feel like we're saying good-bye to an entire era and look, i'm not going to get a little too polly annaish, but an era of politics i grew up with, and why i wanted to do the job i am doing today. it seems like an honorable profession, american politics, and the ones that bob dole, and i'll be speaking with allen simpson in a minute. it doesn't feel that way now. >> dole was a lost thing which we desperately need more of. he was a practical politician. he -- i always thought his nickname should be sergeant. i see him in the senate, we got to pass this bill. what do you need? he was all about getting things done from a conservative point of view. that was not uncommon among the greatest generation guys. and you know, that is a very, very different situation than we