Former Sen. Bob Dole will be remembered at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday ahead of a funeral on Friday at the Washington National Cathedral.
, the ceremony will be open only to invited guests, lawmakers said, but Americans can stream the service online.Lowered to half-staff in honor of former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, flags fly in the breeze at sunrise on the National Mall with the U.S. Capitol in the background, Dec. 6, 2021, in Washington.
"Whatever their politics, anyone who saw Bob Dole in action had to admire his character and his profound patriotism," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently passed Dole's record as one of the longest-serving Republican Senate leaders in history."Those of us who were lucky to know Bob well ourselves admired him even more.
Dole ran three times for president, losing in primaries in 1980 to Ronald Reagan and in 1988 to George H.W. Bush. In 1996, he won the Republican party nomination but lost the general election to Bill Clinton, who was seeking a second term. Months after losing the presidential election, Clinton presented Dole with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House.Former Senator Bob Dole reacts after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in ceremonies at the White House, Jan. 17, 1997.
"Those pivotal moments remain indelibly impressed in your heart and mind," he wrote in"One Soldier's Story," his memoir published in 2005."For me, the defining period in my life was not running for the highest office in the land. It started years earlier, in a foreign country, where hardly anyone knew my name.
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