The banana industry is dominated by Chiquita and Dole, two multinational corporations.

* 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.

In the final October 9, 1996 Vice Presidential Debate against Al Gore ( held as the Dole – Kemp ticket trailed badly in the national polls ), Kemp was soundly beaten, and Al Gore's performance is considered one of the best modern debate performances.

* August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for Vice President, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.

** The Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.

Robert Joseph Semore " Bob " Dole ( born July 22, 1923 ) is an American attorney and politician.

Dole is currently special counsel at the Washington, D. C. office of law firm Alston & Bird.

Bob Dole is currently a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

The hospital where Dole recovered from his wounds, the former Battle Creek Sanitarium, is now named Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in honor of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and Daniel Inouye.

Following the advice of conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of Bill Clinton, remarking, " There is no crisis in health care.

MD-2 is a hybrid that originated in the breeding program of the now-defunct Pineapple Research Institute in Hawaii, which conducted research on behalf of Del Monte, Maui Land & Pineapple Company, and Dole.

* Former U. S. Senator Elizabeth Dole is from Salisbury.

It is said that Dole loved to go up in his tower ( currently closed off ) and watch his horses run.

Today the Dole Mansion is owned by the Lakeside Legacy, along with Lakeside center, which is the building connected to the Dole Mansion.

Dole Mansion is located along the lake, and there is a festival held on the grounds every year.

It is no mistake that Ringling Road provides the northern boundary for the Dole Mansion property.

The original Crystal Lake Country Club faltered in the stock market crash of 1929, and Mrs. Ringling, with her group of investors ( the Lake Development Company ) subdivided much of the large Dole estate into what is known as the Country Club Additions subdivision.

The strip is located on Route 14 between Route 31 and Dole Avenue.

She is married to former U. S. Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole.

He then left Paris, where he had gone after losing his position at Besançon, and for some years lived a very unsettled life at Besançon, Dole, where he married, and in other places in the Jura.

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.

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

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.

Ahead of the 1996 primary contest, Senate majority leader and former vice-presidential nominee Bob Dole was seen as the most likely winner.

With respect to the issues, Dole promised a 15 % across-the-board reduction in income tax rates and made former Congressman and supply side advocate Jack Kemp his running mate.

In 2007, President George W. Bush appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with Donna Shalala, a former member of the Clinton cabinet.

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.

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.

She has worked on the secretariat staff of Secretaries Kissinger and Vance, and as a Congressional Fellow in the office of former U. S. Senator Bob Dole.

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.

Dole was initially a heavy favorite for re-election, especially after several potential top-tier challengers such as Congressman Brad Miller, Governor Mike Easley and former Governor Jim Hunt all declined to compete against Dole.

* Bob Dole, ( born 1923 ), U. S. politician, former U. S. Senator

* Elizabeth Dole, ( born 1936 ), U. S. politician, former U. S. Senator and former U. S. Cabinet member, wife of " Bob " Dole

See e. g. South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U. S. 203 ( 1987 ).

* Bob Dole, U. S. Senator from Kansas

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

** U. S. presidential election, 1996: Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.

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

* July 29 – Elizabeth Dole, U. S. Senator from North Carolina

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.

Wheeler Field was the site of several major historic aviation events prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, including the first nonstop Mainland-Hawai ' i flight in 1927 ; the great Dole Air Race from California to Hawai ' i ; the first trans-Pacific flight from the U. S. to Australia in 1928, and the first Hawai ' i-to-Mainland solo flight in 1935 by Amelia Earhart.

Russell came to national attention in the mid-1990s as the hometown of U. S. Senators Bob Dole and Arlen Specter when both men campaigned for the U. S. presidency.

* Bob Dole, U. S. Senator from Kansas, Senate Majority Leader, 1996 Republican nominee for President

He also advised Bob Dole on foreign policy during his 1996 U. S. Presidential election campaign, which was managed by Donald Rumsfeld.

In late December 2001, Dole shifted her official residency from the Doles ' condominium in the Watergate complex to her mother's home in Salisbury to seek election to the U. S. Senate.

As a member of the U. S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, Dole is credited with helping to prevent any closures of North Carolina military bases despite threats from the Department of Defense.

Dole was a member of the following U. S. Senate committees:

Following the war, he returned to Michigan and recovered at the Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Creek, where he became acquainted with fellow future U. S. Senators Bob Dole and Daniel Inouye.