Dole, 89 years old and using a wheelchair, returned to the Senate in December 2012 and there appealed to his former colleagues to ratify a United Nations convention on disability rights that was modeled on the legislation he crafted himself in the chamber.Д«ut Mr.

In a heartbreaking coda to his public life, Mr. It was an impact that survived his own retirement he worked tirelessly for the election of his wife, Elizabeth Hanford Dole, to the Senate in 2002 and joked that he and Bill Clinton, his rival in the 1996 race, would compete to be president of the Senate spouse club.

Nixon, was at the center of Washington and the searing battles within the Republican Party for so long and with so great an impact. Nonetheless, no Republican, aside from Richard M. He dominated the life of the Senate for a decade, was a leading Republican in Washington, and emerged as a potent symbol, not only for Democrats who derided him as an obstructionist, but also for the new breed of Republicans who considered his style too accommodating, his ideology too squishy, and his identification with establishment Washington too strong. He was a state legislator, a House member, a Senate leader, a national spokesman for a sturdy brand of common-sense conservatism, four times a candidate for national office and always an advocate for the nationвЂ™s farmers and war veterans.

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