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11 unusual facts about Bob Dole


Bob Edwards

Edwards decided not to remain at NPR as a senior correspondent, and filed only one story in that role (an interview with Bob Dole and other Senate veterans of World War II about the Washington, DC World War II memorial).

Dishwasher Pete

"Just keep washing." ― Bob Dole, in response to Dishwasher Pete asking his advice for the dishwashers of America, at a restauranteur convention.

Jeffrey Bruce Klein

Returning in the 1990s to be Mother Jones’ editor-in-chief, Klein directed exposes of Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, the top 400 political contributors in the U.S. and Donald Sipple, the Republican's star image-maker.

Jim Babka

But the Gingrich-led revolution stalled, and Babka was turned off by the GOP when they selected a big-government candidate, Bob Dole, to be the party nominee.

Monica Novotny

In the U.S., she reported on President Clinton’s impeachment, the risks of a chemical weapons incinerator in Utah, Election Night 1996 in Little Rock and the Clinton-Dole debate.

Pat Choate

Bob Dole/Jack Kemp (Republican) - 39,198,755 (40.7%) and 159 electoral votes (19 states carried)

Pokey the Penguin

Celebrities and politicians appear as well, including "Bobdole" (who looks exactly like Pokey) and Stephen Hawking (Pokey with a pointed wizard's hat).

Poolside Chats

With one angry caller, Hamburger claimed that Bob Dole had censored the show, to which the caller replied 'Yeah, fuck Bob Dole!'.

Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations

It is satirically critical of 1990s right-wing political figures such as Pat Buchanan, Bob Dole, Phil Gramm, Newt Gingrich, and particularly radio host Rush Limbaugh.

Snyder County, Pennsylvania

The last Republican nominee to receive less than 60% of the county's vote was Bob Dole.

Ted Patrick

Patrick testified before an ad hoc Congressional committee organized in 1979 by Senator Bob Dole.


American Association of People with Disabilities

The AAPD was founded on July 25, 1995 by Paul Hearne, Senator Bob Dole, John Kemp, Justin Dart, Tony Coelho, Pat Wright, Jim Weisman, Lex Frieden, Sylvia Walker, Paul Marchand, Fred Fay, I. King Jordan, Denise Figueroa, Judi Chamberlin, Bill Demby, Deborah Kaplan, Nancy Bloch, Max Starkloff, Mike Auberger, Neil Jacobson, Ralph Neas, Ron Hartley and others.

Bobby Ray Inman

Inman suggested that Safire had recruited Senator Bob Dole of Kansas to engage in a "vitriolic attack" on Inman, and also claimed that Dole and Senator Trent Lott were planning to "turn up the heat" on his nomination.

Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.

Following his decision not to run for President that year, he was later mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for Bob Dole, but was ultimately passed over in favor of Jack Kemp.

Charles Branham-Bailey

Branham-Bailey was an occasional free-lance stringer during the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis in 1988, Jerry Brown and Bill Clinton in 1992, Bob Dole and running mate Jack Kemp in 1996, and Al Gore and George W. Bush in 2000, covering their campaigns in Virginia and Florida.

Christopher Ingram

He has worked for several political candidates, including Bob Dole, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Mel Martinez, Sen. Johnny Isaacson, Reps. Jon Porter, Jack Kingston, Kenny Hulsholf, Max Burns, and Katherine Harris.

Heather Whitestone

A volunteer for Republican causes, she spoke at the party's National Conventions of 1996 and 2000, for GOP presidential nominees Bob Dole and George W. Bush.

Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon

Sherwood mentions opposition by the news media, major Christian denominations, and members of the government including Representative Donald Fraser and Senator Bob Dole.

Iowa Republican caucuses, 1996

Bob Dole and Phil Gramm tied for the win with 24% of the vote each, followed by Pat Buchanan (18%), Lamar Alexander (11%), and Alan Keyes (8%).

James Floyd Breeding

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress, after his Fifth District in southwest Kansas was merged with Bob Dole's Sixth District in northwest Kansas.

Ronald A. Marks

During that time he occupied a number of increasingly senior positions including two years (1995-96) as Intelligence Counsel to U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and U.S. Senator Trent Lott.

Scott Howell

Recruited by Lee Atwater to work for the RNC after his 1988 work for presidential candidate Bob Dole, Howell spent four years as a campaign operative before moving to Texas in 1992 to work for Karl Rove, then running a direct-mail firm.

United States v. Sun Myung Moon

Sherwood mentions opposition to Moon by the news media, major Christian denominations, and members of the government including Representative Donald Fraser and Senator Bob Dole.