BREAKING: Bob Dole, the long-time senator, former Republican presidential nominee and WWII hero, died Sunday at age 98. The family said he died in his sleep. Dole announced in February that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
Back in the States, his recovery and rehabilitation took more than three years and numerous surgeries, some paid for with donations from his neighbors in Russell. Although he lost his right shoulder, a kidney and the use of his right hand, he regained the ability to walk and the partial use of his left hand. He received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for valor but would spend his political career with a pen gripped in his right hand, masking the effects of the injury.
In 1948, Dole married Phyllis Holden, who worked as an occupational therapist at the Michigan hospital where he was undergoing rehabilitation. The couple had a daughter, Robin. Despite being unable to use his right hand to take notes — Dole would record the lectures and listen to them later or have Holden help him take notes — he finished his studies at Washburn University, earning degrees in history and law.
After a 1972 divorce from Holden, Dole married Washington lawyer Elizabeth Hanford in 1975. The two would become a power couple in Washington, with Elizabeth Dole serving as secretary of transportation, secretary of labor, president of the Red Cross and as a U.S. senator from North Carolina. She mounted a brief presidential campaign of her own before the 2000 election. The two wrote a joint autobiography, “Unlimited Partners: Our American Story.
Failing to find a consistent message and hindered by the belief that at 73 he was too old for the job, Dole’s campaign never really took off. With third-party candidate Ross Perot also on the ballot, Dole and his running mate Jack Kemp won 40 percent of the vote to President Clinton’s 49, losing the electoral college 379 to 159.
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