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 had had a long history of representing the budget-balancing faction of the Party, while Kemp had had a long history of representing the tax-cutting advocates, and Kemp's tax-cutting fiscal track record was seen as the perfect fit for the ticket.

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 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.

Bobby Banana is a mascot of Dole Food Company and the leader of the SuperKids ( children who regularly eat five to nine fruits and vegetables every day ).

The media reported that within 48 hours of the first ad Hagan received over 3, 600 contributions, including major donors as well as individual support from a range of atheists, agnostics and other religious beliefs who felt they were being attacked by Dole.

The media reported that within 48 hours of the first ad Hagan received over 3, 600 contributions, including major donors as well as individual support from a range of atheists, agnostics and other religious beliefs who felt they were being attacked by Dole.

On 28 June, about a month after Dole posted the prizes, Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger flew a three-engine Atlantic-Fokker C-2 military aircraft from Oakland Municipal Airport to Wheeler Army Airfield on Oahu in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

Just before the banana industry's largest strike in 1954, approximately 35, 000 workers held jobs on the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company ( later United Brands Company, then Chiquita Brands International ) or the Standard Fruit Company ( later brought by Castle and Cook, then Dole Food Company ).

Bob Dole and Kemp were featured on the cover of Time ( magazine ) | Time magazine, but were nearly displaced by a story about Mars ( inset on cover )

During the campaign, Kemp and Forbes advocated for a stronger stand on tax cutting than Dole used.

In addition to having overshadowed Dole, despite the negative ad campaigns that the ticket used, Kemp was a very positive running mate who relied on a pep rally type of campaign tour full of football-related metaphors and hyperbole.

Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dole in the Jura region of France, into the family of a poor tanner.

Both authors are staunch conservatives: on his website, Groseclose cites Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Dick Armey, and Dick Cheney as his political heroes, and states that he usually sides with conservatives on controversial issues.

Dole resigned his Senate seat on June 11 and the Republican National Convention formally nominated Dole on August 15, 1996 as the GOP's nominee for President.

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.

A few days later Dole would make a joke about the remark saying " And I'd like to congratulate the St. Louis Cardinals on winning the N. L.

** U. S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on " Super Tuesday ".

In later decades, Aykroyd made occasional guest appearances and unannounced cameos on Saturday Night Live, often impersonating the American politician Bob Dole.

Dole was initiated as a Freemason of Russell Lodge No. 177, Russell, Kansas on April 19, 1955.

Dole as a Senator on February 9, 1982

Dole was re-elected in 1974, 1980, 1986, and 1992, before resigning on June 11, 1996 to focus on his Presidential campaign.

As a result, Clinton could run a campaign through the summer defining his opponent as an aged conservative far from the mainstream before Dole was in a position to respond.

Other important cities are Dole ( capital before the region was conquered by Louis XIV in the late 17th century ), Vesoul ( capital of Haute-Saône ), Arbois ( the " wine capital " of the Jura ), and Lons-le-Saunier ( capital of Jura ).

Elizabeth Dole ran for the Republican nomination in the US presidential election of 2000, but pulled out of the race in October 1999 before any of the primaries, largely due to inadequate fundraising even though a Gallup poll had her in second place in the presidential race at 11 % behind George W. Bush at 60 % as late as October 1999.

In July 2000, shortly before the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Bush campaign sources said Elizabeth Dole was on the short list to be named the vice-presidential nominee, along with Michigan Governor John Engler, New York Governor George Pataki, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, and former Missouri Senator John Danforth.

* Curtis H. Barnette, Trustee ; former Chairman and CEO of Bethlehem Steel ; former Fulbright Scholar ; B. A., West Virginia University ; J. D., Yale University ; admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia and before the U. S. Supreme Court and various federal courts ; appointed by President Ronald Reagan as a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States in 1988 ; appointed by President George Bush to the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations in 1989 ; appointed by Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole as a member of the Coal Commission in 1990 ; President, Association of General Council ; Chairman, American Society of Corporate Secretaries ; Vice Chairman, Yale Law School Fund ; and Member, New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee ; Chairman of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors and the WVU Board of Governors ; Vice Chairman, Foundation for a Drug Free Pennsylvania ; Vice Chairman, Pennsylvania Business Roundtable ; Director, American Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, International Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, WLVT-TV, Channel 39

In addition, festival officials distributed information before the film's screening that indicated Dole believed the film to be factually inaccurate.

Mitchell and Dole encouraged the industry to make a deal, and before the bill went to a vote in the Senate, the cocoa industry agreed to address the problem without legislation.

Summoning First Lady Hillary Clinton to testify before his Senate committee in 1995, and aggressive campaigning for Dole in 1996, damaged D ' Amato in a state where Bill Clinton crushed the Kansan by nearly 2-to-1 ( 59. 5 % to 30. 6 %), doubling his 1992 margin over Bush.

He also worked at various times as an aide to Indiana Senator Dan Coats and a speechwriter for the Presidential campaign of Bob Dole before briefly leaving the political world to cover it as a journalist for U. S. News & World Report.

It was approved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 291 – 115, but before it went to the Senate the chocolate makers hired former senators George Mitchell and Bob Dole to lobby against it, and it did not go to a vote.