#Bob dole

[dadsinsuits]

Bob Dole

[oldshowbiz]

[deadpresidents]

Any good books on losing presidential candidates?

This is an older book but They Also Ran by Irving Stone is a great read about Presidential candidates who came up short.

Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race But Changed the Nation by Scott Farris [BOOK | KINDLE] is a newer take (2011) on the subject of losing Presidential candidates.

And Michael Lewis -- author of Moneyball and The Big Short, among others -- wrote a frequently overlooked and criminally underrated book called Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House [BOOK | KINDLE] that is awesome and genuinely funny. Losers follows the candidates in the campaign for the 1996 Republican Presidential nomination: Senator John McCain of Arizona, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes, Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, Pat Buchanan, and the eventual nominee, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. It's forgotten classic of campaign literature.

[tobybo]

Presidential campaign pocket knives were once a thing back then.

Also, imagine getting mugged by someone welding the Carter knife in the last picture.

[cccovers]

Penthouse Max #2 (November 1996) cover by Pablo Bach.

[mia-golgotha]

Citizen Kang - Treehouse of Horror VII Se08/Ep01

[aardwolfpack]

What the hell is this, some kind o' cube?

Bob Dole, “Cube,” 1997

[giovannigiorgio666]

White box truck appreciation. And while I’m appreciative I want to give a shout out to Bob Dole. I’m stealing his identity and cashing his social security checks since he’s died and since he was a former candidate for president, I get HUGE credit lines in his name. Like $500 huge. He must have had good credit.

[quotent-potables]

Losing means that at least you were in the race. It means that when the whistle sounded, life did not find you watching from the sidelines.

— Bob Dole

[parttimereporter]

Time magazine--and a lot of other reporters--asked if Bob Dole was too old to be president in July 1995..

While Dole ended up losing to Bill Clinton it's sure worth noting that Dole kept his sound mind and lived until 98 years younger in 2021..

[thenewdemocratus]

Firing Line With William F. Buckley: The 1988 Republican Presidential Candidates

. Source:The New Democrat  The Bob Dole intro was the most impressive to me because of how real it was and how real he is. Talking about his parents and family and his background and where he came from. Coming from such modest roots and serving in World War II and being able to go to college on the GI Bill. And having the opportunity he needed to be successful in life and taking full advantage of…

[dadsinsuits]

Bob Dole

[oldshowbiz]

1995.

[deadpresidents]

Book recommendations on Bob Dole?

You know, I don't think I've ever read a full-fledged biography on Bob Dole.

However, I would suggest checking out Richard Ben Cramer's What It Takes: The Way to the White House (BOOK | KINDLE), which is about the leading candidates in during the 1988 Presidential primaries. While Dole came up short in his bid for the GOP nomination in 1988 to George H.W. Bush, a significant part of the book focuses on Dole's life and career up to that point. Joe Biden and his somewhat disastrous 1988 campaign is also a major focus of the book. As I've mentioned before, I strongly believe that What It Takes is actually the best book ever written about a Presidential campaign, so it's well-worth your time. (And reading it definitely takes some time: the book is 1,100 pages long.)

[holdoncallfailed]

that episode of kenan & kel actually aired in 1997 don't fact check me.

[mourning-again-in-america]

A bill for full employment with support from Congress, the Republicans trying to court Jesse Jackson, a pro-consumer trend so strong it let OSHA conduct warrantless searches with fines that couldn't be appealed -- getting the feeling that the reason '74-'80 feels like it got memory-holed is that it doesn't make any goddamn sense.