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.
During his nearly 36 years in Congress, Dole became known as a tough deal-maker, trusted to craft bipartisan compromises. “You’ve got to make the hard choices,” Dole said. It was not for him to “vote no against all the hard things and vote yes for all the easy things, and you go out and make speeches about how tough you are.”In May 1996, Senate Majority Leader Dole surprised his colleagues by announcing that he would resign his seat to devote himself to his presidential campaign.
“I suppose you could say my post-political career really began on that Friday night as viewers discovered that I wasn’t the glowering, Social Security-devouring sourpuss” portrayed in Democratic campaign ads, Dole later wrote.Dole was a driving force behind construction of the World War II Memorial on the National Mall.
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