During his 36 years on Capitol Hill, Dole became one of the most influential legislators and party leaders in the Senate, combining a talent for compromise with a caustic wit. He announced in February that he’d been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
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Dole was the 1976 GOP vice presidential candidate on the losing ticket with President Gerald Ford. He tried three times to become president. The last was in 1996, when he won the Republican nomination only to see President Bill Clinton reelected.
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Dole devoted his later years to the cause of wounded veterans, their fallen comrades at Arlington National Cemetery and remembrance of the fading generation of World War II vets.http://apne.ws/AZAfqGd
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He dreamed of becoming a doctor, but after Bob Dole lost the use of his right arm in World War II he went into politics instead. Here are some of the memorable moments from the late senator's decades in public life.http://apne.ws/iUGmC9G
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"Senator Bob Dole was a war hero, a political leader, and a statesman." U.S. dignitaries and veterans mourn former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a WWII veteran and GOP presidential candidate who served 36 years in Congress. Dole has died at 98.http://apne.ws/IRy69dc
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One of the true patriotic senator
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RIP Senator Dole.
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Eternal Rest grant unto him, oh Lord!
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