Commentators said that while he had the most political experience among prospective candidates ( over Bush and Elizabeth Dole ) and potential grassroots support among conservatives, his campaign was hampered by the legacy of his vice-presidency.

Senate Majority Leader Dole and Gingrich appointed Kemp to head a tax reform commission, ( the Kemp Commission ), in response to voter concern that the tax code had become too complicated.

Forbes had tried to get Kemp to run in the 1996 campaign, but Kemp declined and in fact endorsed Forbes just as Dole was closing in on the nomination, and just after Dole gained the endorsements of former contenders Lamar Alexander and Richard Lugar.

When Dole declined an invitation to speak to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he suggested Kemp as a substitute even before Kemp had become the Vice Presidential nominee.

Dole was a longstanding conservative deficit hawk who had even voted against John F. Kennedy's tax cuts, while Kemp was an outspoken supply-sider.

Dole further enhanced this contrast on September 18 when he made a reference to a no-hitter thrown the day before by Hideo Nomo of the “ Brooklyn Dodgers ”, a team that had left Brooklyn for Los Angeles four decades earlier.

U. S. Senator Bob Dole decried its supposed moral depravity and glorification of drug use during the 1996 presidential campaign, although he admitted that he had not actually seen the film.

A month earlier, on August 16, participants in the disastrous Dole Air Race had taken off from Oakland's new runway headed for Honolulu, Hawaii away — three fliers died before getting to the starting line in Oakland ; five were lost at sea, attempting to reach Honolulu ; and two more died searching for the lost five.

In 1984, the Reagan Administration reversed its course, though in the meantime the original deadline had been extended ; Elizabeth Dole, then Transportation Secretary, proposed that the two passive safety restraints be phased into vehicles gradually, from vehicle model year 1987 to vehicle model year 1990, when all vehicles would be required to have either automatic seat belts or driver side air bags.

His father, who had moved the family to Russell while Dole was still a toddler, made a living by running a small creamery.

Dole had been a star high school athlete in Russell, and influential Kansas basketball coach Phog Allen traveled to Russell to recruit him to play for the basketball team.

" Dole had to wait nine hours on the battlefield before being taken to the 15th Evacuation Hospital, where he began a recovery that would take until 1948 at Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan ( where Dole met future fellow politicians Daniel Inouye and Philip Hart ).

Dole had a moderate voting record ( citation?

Although this transoceanic flight had been attempted by many others, most notably by the unfortunate participants in the 1927 Dole Air Race which had reversed the route, her trailblazing flight had been mainly routine, with no mechanical breakdowns.

The corporation Castle & Cooke, which owns the Dole Food Company had intended in 2009 to demolish much of what remains of the historic district, including homes, a laundromat, and a jailhouse all dating back to the 1920s, in order to build new commercial structures.

Indeed, with former President George H. W. Bush having made clear he was not interested in re-gaining the office, the closest the party had to a front-runner was the Senate Majority leader Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, who was considered to have many weaknesses.

His insurgent campaign used his soaring rhetoric to mobilize grass-roots right wing opinion against what he saw as the bland Washington establishment ( personified by Dole ) which he believed had controlled the party for years.

The 7, 020 foot long runway was the longest in the world at the time, and built in just 21 days to meet the Dole race start.

The long, bitter primary had also left the Dole campaign short of funds as a result of federal election spending limits in the months leading up to the convention.

Throughout most of its history, United Fruit's main competitor was the Standard Fruit Company, now the Dole Food Company.

* Dole Food Company history

On August 16, 1996, the Republican Party chose Kemp as its vice presidential nominee, running alongside former Senator Dole.

In 1997, when Gingrich was embroiled in a House ethics controversy, Kemp served as an intermediary between Dole and Gingrich to save the Republican Party leader.

Pat Buchanan threatened in 1996 to run as the U. S. Taxpayers Party candidate if Bob Dole chose a pro-choice running mate.

Dole was the Republican Party presidential nominee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton.

He declared however that, if Dole were to choose a pro-choice running mate, he would run as the US Taxpayers Party ( now Constitution Party ) candidate.

Dole placed third — behind George W. Bush and Steve Forbes — in a large field in the Iowa Straw Poll ( the first, non-binding, test of electability for the Republican Party nomination ).

Clinton was reelected in 1996, defeating Republican Senator Bob Dole and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot, who did not repeat the success of his 1992 campaign.

Lenny is a member of the Republican Party, as indicated in " Bart-Mangled Banner " ( 2004 ) when he reveals his Dole / Kemp ' 96 American flag tattoo.

For example, Sen. Bob Dole, then head of the Republican Party, sharply criticized Time Warner after a meeting between Michael J. Fuchs ( head of the Warner Music Group ), William Bennett, and C. Delores Tucker, at which Tucker and Bennett demanded that Fuchs read lyrics from NIN's " Big Man with a Gun ".

Senator Bob Dole, in the Republican Party response to the President's State of the Union, used some of McCaughey's arguments of fewer choices, lower quality and more government control.

Some in the Republican Party pushed for Scranton to be named Ford ’ s running mate for the 1976 presidential election, but Ford chose Senator Robert Dole of Kansas instead.

He also served in the Kansas State Senate He became active in the Republican Party and ran for a U. S. House seat previously held by Bob Dole in 1968.

Speakers at the " No Dole " Program have included former Right-Wing Prime Minister John Howard, former Education Minister Brendan Nelson, former Labour Party Leader Kim Beazley, Hawthorn Premiership Star Dermott Brereton, late Motor Racing Legend Peter Brock and former Australian Cricket Captain Ricky Ponting.

Dole Queues and Demons: British Election Posters from the Conservative Party Archive ( 2012 )

* 1996: Bob Dole, Republican Party, " We choose him on the assumption that the real Bob Dole is the one who spent three decades on Capitol Hill, not this year's dubious character ; that he would be more prudent than his economic plan implies.

Without meaningful primary opposition, Clinton was able to focus on the general election early, while Dole was forced to move to the right and spend his campaign reserves fighting off challengers.

In April 1945, while engaged in combat near Castel d ' Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy, Dole was hit by German machine gun fire in his upper right back and his right arm was also badly injured.

When the 104th United States Congress convened in January 1995, House Republicans voted former Minority Whip Newt Gingrich – the chief architect of their victory and author of the Contract with America – Speaker of the House, while the new senatorial Republican majority chose Bob Dole, previously Minority Leader, as Majority Leader.

Elizabeth Dole, who would have become First Lady had her husband won the election, received recognition for her speech at the 1996 Republican National Convention, during which she walked out into the audience while talking conversationally about her husband's qualities.

Reports late in the campaign suggested that Dole suffered from Barack Obama's decision to aggressively contest North Carolina in the presidential election, while Hagan received substantial support from independent 527 groups lobbying / advertising against Dole, as well as the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which spent more money in North Carolina than in any other state during the 2008 election season.

In the end, suburban women favored Clinton by 53 to 39, while suburban men voted for Dole.

According to Cole, his candidacy would draw support from both the Republican and the Democrat, although slightly more from the former: fiscal conservatives dissatisfied with the Bush administration would choose him over Dole, while voters alienated by Hagan's opposition to same-sex marriage and by what Cole called her " immigrant-bashing " might transfer their support to him.

Carol sells her own designed clothes while at the Dole office Martin tries to avoid work.

Minority leader Robert J. Dole ( R-Kan .) became majority leader, while on the Democratic side, the new minority leader was Thomas A. Daschle ( S. D.

* 1975 – Elizabeth Dole, while employed by the Federal Trade Commission

Aykroyd himself often returned in guest appearances on the show throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s to impersonate Republican primary candidate Bob Dole, while Jon Lovitz appeared frequently in late 1980s episodes as Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.

The Dole Gudbrandsdal is a small draft horse, known for its pulling power and agility, while the Dole Trotter is a smaller, faster horse used for harness racing ; the two types are commonly interbred.

The Dole Gudbrandsdal is used mainly for heavy draft and agricultural work, as well as timber hauling, while the lighter Dole Trotter is used mainly for harness racing.

On Election Night, as Clinton defeated Dole by nearly 9 points and Gingrich's House Republicans lost a net eight seats, Senate Republicans won open seats in Alabama, Arkansas and Nebraska, while losing South Dakota.