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The Run for the PresidencyAfter narrowly losing the White House with Gerald Ford in 1976, Bob Dole set his eyes on the Presidency. Dole ran in the Republican primaries for President in 1980 and 1988.
For Dole, the third time was the charm. In 1996, after an intense primary fight, Bob Dole the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, won the GOP nomination to run against President Clinton.
In
late spring of 1996, Dole decided that
he needed to focus all of his energies
on capturing the White House, and his
colleagues in the Senate needed a
full-time leader. So on June 11, 1996,
he said a tearful good-bye to his
longtime colleagues and resigned from
the U.S. Senate to devote all of his
time and energy to his campaign for
President of the United States. Senator
Dole was willing to give up his career
in Congress, which he considered it to
be of great value for the American
people. On
the campaign trail, Bob Dole offered a
vision for America's future that called
for reigning in the size of the federal
government, emphasizing the importance
of traditional American values, and
restoring The United States' prestige
and supremacy abroad. At
the 1996 Republican National
Convention, Mrs. Dole wowed the
audience with her informal style
speech. Although
many Americans agreed with Bob Dole's policies,
he lost the election to incumbent Bill Clinton.
Nonetheless, he has won the respect of Americans
across the political spectrum, in an country
increasingly focused on the need for a President
we can look up to. Many
pundits predict that there may yet be a Dole in
the White House....
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