Hero of the Second World War, the former Kansas senator opposed without success in Bill Clinton at the 1996 presidential election. He died on December 5, at the age of 98 years.
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The former Kansas Bob Dole senator, unfortunate candidate of the Republican Party in the 1996 presidential election in the United States, died on December 5, in Russell, the locality of Kansas where he was born on July 22, 1923 . 98 years old, he had announced at the beginning of the year suffering from lung cancer.
The former war wounded – he had never completely recovered the use of his right arm – notable from the notables of American politics, he will have “faithfully served his country” for nearly eighty years, Stressed the foundation created by his wife, Elizabeth Dole, former minister and senator of North Carolina, today aged 85. The flags were placed in the Capitol where the Double Holder of the Purple Heart Military Medal had to be exhibited on December 9th.
Robert Joseph Dole had grown up in the Midwest’s agricultural belt, during the depression of the 1930s. His father worked in a dairy then a grain silo, his mother sold sewing machines. Athlete, Basketball Officer accomplished – He measured 1.88 meters – he had entered the University of Kansas with the intention of preparing medical studies. But in 1942, his life switches when he engages in the army. Deployed in Italy, it is seriously injured on April 14, 1945 during the fighting of the Th Mountain Division in the Apennines, southwest of Bologna.
in the consensus with Democrats
Paralyzed below the cervical vertebrae, unable to move, it will remain in rehabilitation for more than three years in military hospital (he will meet his first wife, Phyllis Holden, an occupational therapist). All his life, the old miraculum has defended the disabled. With the Democrat Ted Kennedy, he was the architect of the 1990 “American With Disabilities” law, which imposes infrastructure adapted in public housing.
Law graduate, thanks to the scholarship offered to veterans, Bob Dole enters politics by the small door, that of the Kansas Assembly. In 1960, he arrived in Washington for a national career who will see all the ladder: member of the House of Representatives for eight years, then the Senate, for twenty-seven years. It occupies the most important positions: Chairman of the Finance Committee, “Minority Leader” from 1987 to 1995 when the Republicans are in the opposition, then head of the party becoming majority of 1995 to 1996. He attracts the consideration. Tout-Washington for his pragmatism and his consensus research efforts with the Democrats.
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