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Episode 459 BOB DOLE 1995 Clinton's Comeback (Part 1) The Bob Dole Presidential Announcement (2nd Special Event ) · BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

• 1:48
  SPEAKER_13: To help them type of surgery to recover from the horrible harvest injury that he was received in World War II and the thing.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_13: Here we are.
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  SPEAKER_13: 40-something years later, and Bob Dollar stands on the threshold of the presidency.
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  SPEAKER_13: Where just moments from now, he will announce his candidacy to run for president in a crowded field right now of potential opponents, including Texas Senator Bill Brown, Tennessee, former Governor Lamar Alexander, Pat Buchanan, the political commentator, former Ambassador Alan Coon, former Representative Bob Dornen.
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  SPEAKER_13: It is quite a crowded field, but Bob Doe will clearly be the front runner.
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  SPEAKER_13: He confront the president twice before in 1980 and in 1988 losing to President Bush in the Republican primary uh then.
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  SPEAKER_13: But today is his day and his turn now.
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  SPEAKER_13: And as we see, uh Nasty Katzenbaum, his colleague of the United States Senate, has hit the microphone.
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  SPEAKER_13: So let's go down live to the event for Bob Dole as he announces he is going to run for president in the United States.
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  SPEAKER_07: Thank you very much.
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  SPEAKER_07: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's a wonderful pleasure to be.
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  SPEAKER_07: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_07: Thank you very much.
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  SPEAKER_07: I can't tell you what a wonderful day this is.
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  SPEAKER_07: And first to say thank you and thank you to Jack Breyer for a wonderful job as a master of ceremonies.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's an exciting time to be part of the Kansas delegation.
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  SPEAKER_07: My colleagues of the Kansas House have been introduced, and let me just say they are the true revolutionaries.
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  SPEAKER_07: We not only have the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Pat Roberts from the Big First District, but we have Jan Myers of the 3rd District, Chairman of the Small Business Committee.
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  SPEAKER_07: And Sam Brownback from the 2nd District, and Todd T.
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  SPEAKER_07: Hart from the third from the 4th district, who have provided the backbone of the freshman class in the 104th Congress of the House of Representatives.
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  SPEAKER_07: And let me just say we are all enlisting in the Dole Battalion.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's my honor to introduce the 43rd governor of the state of Kansas, a young man who, in just four short months, has provided strong and dedicated leadership that's put a mark on the fairs, the state of Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's an honor to introduce to you the governor of our great faith, Governor Bill Gray.
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  unknown: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_04: What a great honor it is to be here this morning for this wonderful event.
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  SPEAKER_04: I do want to take an opportunity, I know, again, to recognize some very important individuals who are here today, and I haven't had a chance to find them in the crowd yet.
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  SPEAKER_04: First of all, my friend from Iowa, Terry Branstead, and again, Terry, thank you very much for being here, the governor of Iowa.
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  SPEAKER_04: We have been so fortunate to have successes in our congressional races, and someone I met a year ago or so during the on the campaign trail from Oklahoma, JC Watts.
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  SPEAKER_04: JC, great to have you in Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_04: And Bill Zella from New Hampshire.
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  SPEAKER_04: Bill, thank you very much for joining us and coming to Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_04: We appreciate it.
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  SPEAKER_04: One of the senator's close friends, Chuck Grassley, his wife, Barbara Grassley, is here.
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  SPEAKER_04: Barbara, thank you very much from Iowa.
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  SPEAKER_04: We're great to have you.
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  SPEAKER_04: And of course, one of the early primary states is Arizona, and what a thrill it is to have the Attorney General of Arizona, Grant Woods, here with us today.
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  SPEAKER_04: Grant, thank you for your support.
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  SPEAKER_04: And last but not least, as you all know, it takes money to drive the machines, and it's so important to recognize the chairman of the Dole Finance Committee, John Moran.
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  SPEAKER_04: John, wherever you are, thank you very much.
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  SPEAKER_04: Thank you, John.
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  SPEAKER_04: And thank you, Senator Kasabbaum.
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  SPEAKER_04: As you know, Kansas has a tradition of sending its sons and daughters to lead this nation.
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  SPEAKER_04: From Vice President Charles Curtis and President Dwight Eisenhower, to Alf Landon's legacy, alive today in the distinguished service of Senator Nancy Landon Cassobaum, Kansans have played an important role in the leadership of America.
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  SPEAKER_04: Today we're here to celebrate another Kansan who continues that tradition, Bob Dole.
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  SPEAKER_04: There is a distinguishing characteristic of Bob Dole that clearly sets him above others who would lead, and apart from those who do lead, Bob Dole has never failed to answer the call to service of this nation and its people.
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  SPEAKER_04: And in answering those calls, he has never failed to serve with distinction.
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  SPEAKER_04: In World War II, when this nation was locked in the struggle to save democracy, he was called to serve and return a true war hero.
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  SPEAKER_04: When Kansas were asking for leadership, he answered the call.
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  SPEAKER_04: First as county attorney, then as state legislator, congressman, and finally as United States Senator.
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  SPEAKER_04: When his party sounded the call for leadership, he responded and led Republicans to election victories by campaigning tirelessly from coast to coast, occasionally stopping in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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  SPEAKER_04: Today, this nation needs a leader to step forward, and Bob Dole is prepared to answer the call to service again.
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  SPEAKER_04: America needs a leader whose values are reflected in his deeds, not merely claimed by his words.
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  SPEAKER_04: Such a leader is Bob Dole.
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  SPEAKER_04: This nation, this nation is asking for a leader who can gain respect of the world and rebuild the respect of Americans for the presidency.
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  SPEAKER_04: This nation is searching for a leader tough enough to lead and compassionate enough to care about those in need.
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  SPEAKER_04: He has always been a strong leader from combat in a world war to controversies in legislative halls.
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  SPEAKER_04: Ask the families of MIAs and POWs of Vietnam.
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  SPEAKER_04: Who was there to listen before it was politically popular to do so and is still there?
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  SPEAKER_04: Bob Dole.
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  SPEAKER_04: Ask those with disabilities.
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  SPEAKER_04: Who has championed their cause again and again?
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  SPEAKER_04: Bob Dole.
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  SPEAKER_04: Ask the countless individuals who was there quietly helping, without a press release or the news headline to chronicle his caring.
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  SPEAKER_04: Such a leader is Bob Dole.
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  SPEAKER_04: Today is a day of great pride for Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_04: For a native son is once again answering the call of service to his country.
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  SPEAKER_04: While he has served presidents and conferred with kings, he remains in the hearts of his Kansas neighbors and as a friend of all Kansans.
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  SPEAKER_04: A Kansas character of independent, hardworking, strong, and courageous people is woven into the fabric of leadership he provides this nation.
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  SPEAKER_04: Today is a day of great hope for all America.
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  SPEAKER_04: For this nation desires a president who knows the sacrifice that is inherent in answering the call to lead.
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  SPEAKER_04: A president who has the strength to lead.
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  SPEAKER_04: A president who cares deeply for the American people, all the American people.
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  SPEAKER_04: The trumpet is sounded, the call is clear.
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  SPEAKER_04: And again, as he has throughout his life, Bob Dole is ready.
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  SPEAKER_04: For Kansas, for the nation, for all of us.
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  SPEAKER_13: And his wife, Elizabeth Dole, approach the stage.
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  SPEAKER_13: Bob Dole, sir, politician, attorney, U.S.
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  SPEAKER_13: Army, representing Kansas in the Senate from 1969, President Department of Republican Army Senate.
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  SPEAKER_13: 27 years for that in the House for eight years.
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  SPEAKER_11: Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States, Senator Bob Dole with Elizabeth Dole and Robin Dole.
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  SPEAKER_13: Now the clear front runner in this nineteen ninety-six presidential campaign that starts today in Russia, Kansas' hometown, at the high school in April of nineteen ninety-five.
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  SPEAKER_13: Happy speak.
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  SPEAKER_04: Ladies and gentlemen.
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  SPEAKER_17: Thank you very much.
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  SPEAKER_17: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Governor Graves.
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  SPEAKER_03: My good colleague, Senator Casabaugh.
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  SPEAKER_03: Good morning, friends, and I see a lot of friends in this audience.
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  SPEAKER_03: Elizabeth Rod and I thank you for your tremendous welcome.
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  SPEAKER_03: We really appreciate it very much.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's great to be in Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's great to be in Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_03: Of course, I'm not the first Kansan to say there's no place like home.
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  SPEAKER_03: But for me, the words have a very special meaning.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wherever I have traveled in this life, I've never forgotten where I came from or where I go home to, and that's very important.
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  SPEAKER_03: Whatever lessons I've applied in public life were first learned here as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, and I'm very proud of that too.
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  SPEAKER_03: These days I spend much of my time in another capital.
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  SPEAKER_03: You see many things from atop the hill in Washington where I work, but you can see America from here.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can see America from here.
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  SPEAKER_03: Common sense and uncommon sensitivity.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's the Kansas way.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it's what prompted Alf Lannon with his unique wisdom to say, there are some intelligent people in Washington, but there are a lot more of them in Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_03: I hasten to add the same applies to the other 49 states, particularly Iowa and New Hampshire.
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  SPEAKER_03: But then Kansas never had to look to Washington, D.C.
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  SPEAKER_03: for a sense of compassion or community.
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  SPEAKER_03: As a young man in a small town, my parents taught me to put trust in God, not government, and never confuse the two.
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  SPEAKER_03: Something else I learned the hard way, that while self-reliance is an essential part of the American character, so is the spirit of community that reaches out to those wounded in body or soul.
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  SPEAKER_03: When I went off to war, it was to defend a community of values unique in all the world.
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  SPEAKER_03: I came back sustained by the love and generosity of friends and neighbors who renewed my sense of life's possibilities.
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  SPEAKER_03: And over these years, they have given me the opportunities for service which I can never hope to repay.
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  SPEAKER_03: And because they restored my spirit in a time of trial, I have dedicated myself to restoring the spirit of America.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so today.
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  SPEAKER_17: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_03: The view many Americans The view many Americans see this morning is a sobering one.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are troubled about the direction our country is taking.
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  SPEAKER_03: Our values are under constant assault from our public and cultural institutions.
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  SPEAKER_03: We feel threatened by the random incidents of violent crime.
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  SPEAKER_03: Too many of our schools, which were once passports to opportunity, have become demoralizing places.
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  SPEAKER_03: Welfare has become a misery subsidy, fostering illegitimacy and generations of dependency.
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  SPEAKER_03: And yet the deficit keeps growing, taxes keep increasing, and the government keeps demanding more and more authority over our lives.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now none of this should come as a surprise.
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  SPEAKER_03: For much of this century, power and wealth alike have flowed from grassroots Americans to a federal government which exploded to meet the twin crises of economic depression and global war.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yet the life jacket of one generation can become the straitjacket of the next.
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  SPEAKER_03: And in giving Washington our responsibility to address problems close to their source, Americans have unwittingly encouraged the federal government to become too large, too remote, and too undemocratic to be representative.
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  SPEAKER_03: However, another America is waiting.
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  SPEAKER_03: An America, an America with a strong heart, strong again in heart and sure of mind.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I would like to lead us there.
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  SPEAKER_03: Our problems are not too difficult to handle.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're not too difficult to handle.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's just that our leaders have grown too isolated from places like Topeka, embarrassed by the values here.
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  SPEAKER_03: They seem to have lost the idea that we are and must remain one nation under God.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are bound by our heritage to a set of common values: hard work, integrity, responsibility.
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  SPEAKER_03: These values have always been the source of our strength and the glue that holds us together.
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  SPEAKER_03: Our country must again have leaders who believe in our people and are proud of our values.
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  SPEAKER_03: We need leaders who will summon from each of us the best of our character, who will call us as a nation to our full potential.
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  SPEAKER_03: I want to be present so I can do this for America.
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  SPEAKER_03: My mandate as present would be to rein in the federal government in order to set free, in order to set free the spirit of the American people, to reconnect our government in Washington with the common sense values of our citizens, and to reassert American interests wherever and whenever they are challenged around the world.
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  SPEAKER_03: And my guide in this would be the final piece of the Bill of Rights, the Tenth Amendment.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'll be and let me read it, it's only 28 words in length.
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  SPEAKER_03: It reads the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's what the Tenth Amendment says.
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  SPEAKER_03: When these words were written by our founding fathers more than 200 years ago, they were an affirmation of a radical new theory of politics.
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  SPEAKER_03: A theory based on the need to limit the powers of the central government in order to unleash the unlimited potential of the people.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the federal government should do only those things specifically called for in the Constitution.
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  SPEAKER_03: All others should remain with the states or the people.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's what it's all about.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is a philosophy, it is a philosophy of freedom conceived in liberty, tested by history, yet too often ignored in Washington.
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  SPEAKER_03: I intend to restore it.
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  SPEAKER_03: With rare clarity.
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  SPEAKER_03: And while on the subject, and while on the subject of creating a government will say yes to the American people, let me make one fundamental belief crystal clear.
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  SPEAKER_03: We can cut taxes and balance the budget.
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  SPEAKER_03: Don't mistake about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Middle class families are forced to spend to send too much of their money to hard-earned hard-earned money to Washington.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should provide a tax credit for children and remove the marriage penalty to strengthen our families.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we should cut the capital gains tech to stimulate economic growth, create new jobs, and expand opportunity for all our people.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this is just the first step, not the last, just the first step.
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  SPEAKER_03: We need a president committed to making our tax system lower, fairer, flatter, and simpler so that ordinary people like you and me could fill out our tax form without a lawyer or an accountant or bug.
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  SPEAKER_03: Balance the budget will also be a top priority.
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  SPEAKER_03: We cannot continue mortgaging our children's future.
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  SPEAKER_03: We will give the present the line item veto, and we will give the American people a balanced budget amendment.
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  SPEAKER_03: But that is only the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_03: Reigning in the government means streamlining the entire federal bureaucracy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Getting its nose out of the places government just shouldn't be.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should work our way through the alphabet soup of government asking this question.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is this program a basic function of limited government?
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  SPEAKER_03: Or is it an example of how government has lost faith in the judgment of our people?
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  SPEAKER_03: And the best place to begin is with four of the most ineffective, burdensome, and meddlesome departments: education, housing and urging development, energy, and commerce.
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  SPEAKER_03: Together they spend more than$74 billion per year and employ more than 74,000 workers.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's close down the education department and spend the money on our children, not on the bureaucrats and red tape.
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  SPEAKER_03: And let's implement school choice to return power to parents.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_03: HUD has become a cash cow for big city mayors and the well-connected.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should give housing vouchers to those who need them and get the government out of the landlord business altogether.
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  SPEAKER_03: Energy would function better as an agency within the Department of Defense, and more than half of what the Department of Commerce does has nothing to do with commerce or trade, duplicated by 71 other governmental departments, agencies, and offices.
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  SPEAKER_03: And there are other questions we should ask.
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  SPEAKER_03: We spent hundreds of million dollars on the endowments for the arts and humanities.
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  SPEAKER_03: Why is the federal government in the culture business in this explosion of the information age?
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  SPEAKER_03: Why do we have a corporation for public broadcasting?
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  SPEAKER_03: And there are a host of other areas that cry out for reform.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'll be talking about them at greater length in the year ahead.
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  SPEAKER_03: And why are the Liberals in Washington so afraid to turn welfare decision making over to our governors like Governors Graves and Branstead and to our state legislatures in Kansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, Arizona, wherever?
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  SPEAKER_03: There is already considerable evidence, evidence that they could do much better.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_03: Affirmative action is another federal policy out of control.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_03: Discrimination is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_03: Discrimination is immoral.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_03: This is America.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should have a colorblind society.
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  SPEAKER_03: But fighting.
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  SPEAKER_03: But fighting discrimination, but fighting discrimination should never be used to divide Americans by race, ethnic, background, or gender.
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  SPEAKER_03: There is one area where the federal government must work in partnership with our state and local governments, and that is the area of crime.
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  SPEAKER_03: Today, a criminal committing a serious crime has less than a 10% chance of going to jail.
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  SPEAKER_03: And once in jail, that criminal will serve only a fraction of his sentence.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should put an end to parole for violent offenders.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should put limits on the endless and often frivolous appeals clogging our courts.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should remove teenagers who commit serious violent crimes from juvenile courts and try them as adults.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should be more concerned with the rights of the victims and the privileges of criminals.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we must and we must rededicate ourselves to the war on drugs.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now finally, let me touch for a moment on America's place in the world.
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  SPEAKER_03: There is one responsibility, only the federal government government has, and that is to protect our freedom.
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  SPEAKER_03: We must never be reluctant about our greatness or ashamed of our national strength.
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  SPEAKER_03: We must stop placing the agenda of the United Nations before the interests of the United States.
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  SPEAKER_03: And when we take our revolution in the White House in 1996, we will vow that American foreign policies will be determined by us, not by the United Nations.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let us remember that America's been the greatest force for good the world has ever known.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was reminded of that on the 50th anniversary of D-Day last summer.
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  SPEAKER_03: When the eyes of the world were focused on the beaches of France.
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  SPEAKER_03: Memories of the heroism, the sacrifices, and pain that men and women suffered.
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  SPEAKER_03: Before visiting France, I traveled to Northern Italy where I served in the 10th Mountain Division.
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  SPEAKER_03: And while revisiting the battle sites, I thought about why we had been sent there.
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  SPEAKER_03: About the America of our youth.
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  SPEAKER_03: The America we were risking our lives to protect.
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  SPEAKER_03: And about our hopes for the generations who would follow us.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then I thought about the America we live in now.
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  SPEAKER_03: An America still great, and still the beacon of freedom around the world.
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  SPEAKER_03: But an America that is headed in the wrong direction.
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  SPEAKER_03: And standing there gazing across those now peaceful fields, I thought of why it is critical to have a president who knows what made America great.
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  SPEAKER_03: And what has been sacrificed to keep us free.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it would do all in his power to lead America back to her place in the sun.
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  SPEAKER_03: My friends, I have the experience.
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  SPEAKER_03: I have been tested and tested and tested in many, many ways.
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  SPEAKER_03: I am not afraid to lead, and I know the way.
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  SPEAKER_03: Together, let us reassert our rightful place as a great nation.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should do it for ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_03: We owe it to our children.
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  SPEAKER_03: We must act to be worthy of the gift our ancestors have sacrificed so much for.
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  SPEAKER_03: To ensure that the next century will dawn on a new beginning of American greatness, prosperity, and freedom.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let us do it together.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let us begin today.
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  SPEAKER_03: God bless the United States of America.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you very much.
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  SPEAKER_13: We've talked about to balance the budget, we cut taxes.
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  SPEAKER_13: We've talked about the need to eliminate housing urban development department, energy department, the commerce department, the education department, streamlining government.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_13: Why are we in the information agency still running operations for public broadcaster or national public radio?
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  SPEAKER_13: That argument big government, small government, Washington insider, get things done president as it writes to a liberal agenda.
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  SPEAKER_13: That's what this election is going to be about.
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  SPEAKER_13: Very, very strong women.
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  SPEAKER_15: And uh this this should be the V race for 1996.
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  SPEAKER_15: That picture on the screen is in the New York Times that you were just looking at, and it's the banner hanging at Topeka, the State House.
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  SPEAKER_15: Uh Bob Sherrill, what do you think of Bob Dole?
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  SPEAKER_15: What do I think of Bob Dole?
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  SPEAKER_06: Well, I think Bob Dole is uh the last great voice of a great generation.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_06: Uh Patriot.
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  SPEAKER_06: Uh nothing told us more about Bob Dole than at the internment rights for uh Richard Nixon.
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  SPEAKER_06: He spoke so eloquently about Nixon and that tremendous truth.
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  SPEAKER_06: When at one point he had to think that uh his generation's passing.
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  SPEAKER_16: He's a kind of a tragic figure in a lot of ways.
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  SPEAKER_16: He had that great pain and the agony 50 years ago today or this week he was wounded so badly in Italy.
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  SPEAKER_16: Um I find it to be kind of a frustrating uh figure because he spent so much of his career as the um assistant for Republican presidents doing their agenda, and it's very difficult to find out what his own agenda would be.
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  SPEAKER_16: He says that his uh skills of leadership can say leadership to where.
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  SPEAKER_16: And he kind of gets really vague at that point, as well.
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  SPEAKER_06: I like to take issue with that.
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  SPEAKER_06: I actually think that uh we know the kind of Republican he is, and uh it's uh kind of Republican that's been around since our past mainstream Midwestern Republicans, uh that they don't articulate visionism.
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  SPEAKER_06: Um tells you a little bit about how the age of this of this uh line.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_06: Um they never have, but I have kind of particularly good.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_06: I mean these are not creatures of ideology and they're not creat creatures of the age of image.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_06: Um there's something more solid about them and uh more historically.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_06: Sure, the potholes are off the street, the police are there on time, uh, even old-fashioned American uh Republican, Midwestern conservative Republicans.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_14: When we come back, Bob Dole with his eye on the White House prize, his plans, and his own words.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_14: This portion of NBC with a Republican presidential nominee will be.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_14: But for now, one man is widely considered to be the front runner.
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  SPEAKER_14: For now.
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  SPEAKER_14: Today he formally entered the race.
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  SPEAKER_14: Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
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  SPEAKER_14: At 71, the oldest of six declared GOP candidates.
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  SPEAKER_14: As a member of the Army's 10th Mountain Division, he won medals for heroism after being wounded in Italy during World War II.
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  SPEAKER_14: Dole was elected to Congress 34 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_14: This is his third try for the White House.
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  SPEAKER_14: Dole was also Republican National Chairman during Richard Nixon's presidency and a vice presidential candidate on President Ford's ticket in 76.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_14: But today, Bob Dole was sounding like the outsider as he announced his candidacy, but one with the experience to lead.
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  SPEAKER_14: Senator Dole tonight, in his own words.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_03: I have come home to Kansas with a grateful heart to declare that I am a candidate for the presidency of the United States.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_03: The trust of my campaign is going to be that let's rein in the federal government.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_03: There's too much government.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_03: Let me make one fundamental belief crystal clear.
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  SPEAKER_03: We can cut taxes and balance the budget.
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  SPEAKER_03: We should put an end to parole for violent offenders.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_03: We should put limits on the endless and often privileged appeals clogging our courts.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_03: We should remove teenagers who commit serious violent crimes from juvenile courts and try them as adults.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_03: There are a lot of good Republicans who are pro-life, a lot of good Republicans who are pro-choice.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_03: When people say you can't put anybody on the ticket who's pro-choice, my view is: well, you put somebody on the ticket who's a good Republican.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_03: No more cash payments.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_03: You live with your parents, you identify the father, you're still eligible for food stamps and Medicaid.
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  SPEAKER_03: Affirmative action is another federal policy out of control.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_03: Discrimination is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_03: But fighting discrimination should never be used to divide Americans by race, ethnic background, or gender.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_03: And we commit United States forces that ought to be committed by the president of the United States and not by some faceless, nameless bureaucrat in the United Nations.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_03: I'm a very vigorous person.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_03: I exercise thought to take care of myself.
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  SPEAKER_03: My friends, I have the experience.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_00: Dole instantly stands out from the rest of the candidate pack as a veteran Washington insider and not as far to the right.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_00: What's more do is widely seen now as the Republican debate.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_00: Correspondent Linda Douglas has the book on Bob Dole.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_08: Against an all-American backdrop, Bob Dole returned to his home state of Kansas to announce for the third time that he's running for president.
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  SPEAKER_03: My friends, I have the experience.
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  SPEAKER_03: I have been tested and tested and tested in many, many ways.
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  SPEAKER_03: I am not afraid to lead, and I know the way.
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  SPEAKER_08: He argues duty and sacrifice shaped his generation, a theme that may appeal to today's anxious voters.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_01: We've now had a taste of the baby boomer generation, and its uncertainties are a bit unsettling to us.
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  SPEAKER_08: But critics say at 71, Dole is too old and ornery.
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  SPEAKER_08: His bitter attacks on opponents are legendary.
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  SPEAKER_08: In the 1988 Republican campaign, he's self-destructive with this outburst against George Bush.
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  SPEAKER_08: Politically, Dole knows he must sound more conservative, taking on issues like affirmative action.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_03: Fighting discrimination should never be used to divide Americans by race, ethnic, background, or gender.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_08: Dole moved on to New Hampshire late today, where he'd lost big before and now hopes to win with the title he's rarely held, front runner.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_09: Linda Douglas, CBS News to Pizza.
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  SPEAKER_09: Another title Dole has rarely been given, nice guy.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_09: The new buzz says the kinder, gentler Bob Dole is running.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_09: When I sat down and talked the other day with Bob and Elizabeth Dole, the senator said he doesn't buy the old buzz that he has a meme streak.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_02: I've been in politics a long time, and people always quote one or two things I've said in the past 30 years.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it seems to me that's uh that's not a very fair measurement.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_09: Maybe not.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_09: Here he is, Senator Bob Dole.
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  SPEAKER_09: Senator! But to win this time, candidate Dole knows he has to soften his sharp-tongued image, even if it means going on the Letterman show.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_09: Senator, people who know you say you're cooler and calmer and more mellow.
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  SPEAKER_09: Is there a new Bob Dole?
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think so.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_02: I think I am more relaxed.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_02: I think I've got a little different outlook on what we're trying to do in 1996.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_09: Does he seem to have lost some of those more endearing qualities that he had before?
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_09: Connie, uh, Bob is a private person, a private man.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_09: And it doesn't hurt, says Elizabeth Stole, when the private feelings he has hidden for years come out in public at President Nixon's funeral or at the farewell dinner for President throughout your distinguished career.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_09: And maybe there's been a little mellowing or letting its guard down a bit.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_09: Uh maybe he's a little more willing to let uh some of that more private side show.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_09: But if there is a new Mr.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_09: Nice guy, the question is, how long will the image last?
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_10: Under the right stress and the right poor primary outcome, I think Mr.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_10: Nasty could probably find his way out of the uh the closet.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_09: Not if Elizabeth Dole can help it.
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  SPEAKER_09: In fact, many believe her image helps soften her husband's.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_09: Some people say that uh your wife just doesn't have those qualities that rub people the wrong way, the way some people believe Hillary Clinton does.
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  SPEAKER_02: I I do think Elizabeth has a special quality.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think she threatens people, doesn't threaten other women or threaten anybody.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I think uh not comparing anybody else, and just saying in her own right.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_09: The new Bob Dole still manages to get his digs in.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_09: But on Capitol Hill, he's no longer seen as the top GOP hatchet man.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_09: Some people say that the best thing that ever could have happened to you was Newt Gingrich because he's even more acerbic than you ever were.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Newt's had a tough job, and of course the power starts on the house side.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_02: And and I think uh he's probably taken some flags that would have gone to me.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_09: Political observers believe Dole had come to terms with staying in the Senate when along came a series of surprise political turns to give him one more try at the White House, and this unexpected chance at the office he thought had eluded him has given Bob Dole a new perspective on life and politics.