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Episode 460 BOB DOLE 1995 Clinton's Comeback (Part 2) The Bob Dole for President Introductory Film (Special Edition) · BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: Hi everybody, this is Randall Wallace, your host for Bob Dole 1996, The Campaign of a Lifetime.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: And uh this is a real brief show 'cause it's going to be the Bob Dole an American Hero Campaign 1996 video.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I got a box of these from the campaign in 1996, just before Christmas.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: And I this is what I gave to people for Christmas.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I was a fanatical Bob Dole fan.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I I just I think, and I've said this to people when they ever asked me who was the greatest president in my lifetime, Richard Nixon.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: But who was the greatest man and political leader of my lifetime?
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I think the greatest man to run for president and not win Bob Dole.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not even a contest.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: And this video uh I still have the videotape itself.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: I've transferred it to DVD and uh and we took the audio off of it to do this uh program is uh the video that was the first thing I got from the Dole campaign uh when I volunteered there.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: I originally called them uh in nineteen ninety four when Richard Dixon died.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: I called his office and they told me that's the wrong office, but they had my number, and the next thing you know, uh when we got into ninety-five, uh that was how I ended up getting involved because they had my li my name on the list of volunteers in South Carolina.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: And South Carolina, of course, as you will see as we get to end of this campaign, was very, very important.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: But uh this video is very special to me.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's my favorite of all the campaign videos I've ever uh had, and uh it's because it's Bob Dole's my favorite of all the candidates that have ever run.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: And anyway, I thought we would share it with you right here in a special podcast with just it to enjoy.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: The president is the most important person in the whole country.
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  SPEAKER_03: We need a president who will be a steady conservative hand at the wheel, a president who has that special quality of leadership, a president who understands the price of freedom.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: We need a president who will be a strong role model, who's not afraid to speak out on our values, cutting taxes and balancing the budget, and creating good paying jobs.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: One day I'm going to be president, and I want the country in good shape when I take over.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_02: Ladies and gentlemen, it is my place to be the next president of the United States, why'd I fall in love with Bob Dole?
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it didn't hurt that he was the most handsome and strongest man I'd ever met, and probably the funniest.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_03: The number one way to balance a budget, Arkansas.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_03: Salad.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: But there's really so much about Bob that people don't know.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: His story is really the American story: triumph over adversity, love of family, commitment to a core set of beliefs that have been tested in the toughest situations imaginable.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: To understand Bob Dole, you have to realize that Bob grew up in a family that had a lot of love, but not much else.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: For a long time I didn't know this.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: But for years, during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl days, his entire family lived in the basement of their little house on Maple Street and rented out the upstairs so that they could make ends meet.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: His mom and dad, Bob, his brother Kenny, and his two sisters, Gloria and Norma Jane.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: And you have to understand what Bob was like before the war.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Athletics was such a big part of his life.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: He was a football and basketball star, but also loved to run.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: And though he wasn't a great runner naturally, he worked at it until he set the local record in the half mile.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: That same kind of dedication and discipline has been evident his entire life.
• 4:58
  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.
• 5:13
  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.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_03: I joined the 10th Mountain Division as a second lieutenant platoon leader, and it was on April 14th when our platoon was assigned and directed to take Hill 913.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_03: We tried to advance.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_03: I remember my radio man, Corporal Sims, being hit.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_03: I remember dragging him back into a foxhole.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_03: Then I remember trying to move up a little bit, and then I felt a sting in my shoulder.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_03: Some high explosives floated in her to my right shoulder.
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  SPEAKER_03: Fractured my vertebrae, my neck.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_03: I saw these things racing.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: My parents, my house.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_03: I couldn't move my body, I couldn't move my arms, my legs.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_04: No one really thought he would live.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_04: But young Second Lieutenant Bob Dole refused to give up.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_04: Then no one thought he would ever walk again.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: Bob was paralyzed for a year.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: He went away to war a star athlete, 190 pounds of muscle, and came back at 120 pounds, and some said he'd never get out of bed.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: But they, the experts, didn't understand what a man like Bob Dole was made of.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_03: When I went off to war, it was to defend a community of values unique in all the world.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_03: I came back sustained by the love and generosity of friends and neighbors who renewed my sense of life's possibilities.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_03: I went around looking for a miracle to make me whole again.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_03: Then I heard of this doctor in Chicago, Dr.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_03: Caligan.
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  SPEAKER_03: Great art medium orthopedic surgeon who served in the service.
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  SPEAKER_03: She lost her brother there.
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  SPEAKER_03: She would do anything for veterans.
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  SPEAKER_03: And he didn't.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_03: I remember going to see him.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_03: He wanted to help me, he wanted to operate on my arms, but my hand is keeping attached to my right hand.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_03: My shoulder was fused, it was sort of like this, where I couldn't move at all.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_03: He wanted to at least make it flail so to come back to my side.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_03: So the end result was that uh I didn't have any money, he didn't want any money, so he had to pay deposit bills.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_03: With the help of Russell, Bob Dole fought back.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_03: BFW in Russell, Kansas, with a friend of mine, Phil Rubensal, started to raise money.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_03: And they raised about$1,800.
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  SPEAKER_03: They did it with this little cigar box Elizabeth last year.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_03: And I still have some of the deposits which they're 50 cents, they're$15, 45 cents.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_03: Some people I've never heard of.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_03: Most of them I knew when I carried the papers, paper root or bolster lawns or something growing up as a kid.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_04: He had nine operations and spent two years struggling to regain some of his strength.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_04: He spent months in his backyard pulling on a makeshift pulley to build strength in his left arm.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_04: And the young soldier they thought would never walk again willed himself to walk around and around the block.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_04: First it took hours, but Bob Dole never gave up.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: I remember one time we were dating, and uh Bob was down in North Carolina visiting with my parents, and um, unbeknownst to me, he left uh his bedroom, went down to the kitchen where my mother was fixing breakfast, and he had a towel over his uh shoulder that had been wounded in the war.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he said, Miss Hanford, um, he said, I think you should know about my problem.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: And he showed it to my mother, and she said, Bob, that's not a problem, that's a badge of honor.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_04: All across this country, Americans are looking for leadership.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_04: We long for a president to make us proud, to inspire us in good times and bad.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_04: A leader who shares our values and understands that faith, courage, and commitment have made America the greatest country in the history of the world.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_03: It really all comes down to values.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_03: What you believe in, what you sacrifice for, and what you stand for.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_04: At a time when our country is crying out for moral leadership, Bob Dole has stepped forward to fight for our values.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_03: Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_03: We will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_03: We will contest them for the heart and soul of every child and every neighborhood in America.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_03: Love of family, community, faith.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_04: These basic values that have made America great have found a voice in Bogdo.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_03: The view many Americans see this morning is a sobering one.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: We are in trouble about the direction our country is taking.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_03: Our values are under consciousness from our public and cultural institutions.
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  SPEAKER_03: An America, an America with a strong heart.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_03: Strong again in heart and sure of mind.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_03: And I would like to lead us there.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_04: And whose leadership will provide economic freedom for every American.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_03: We can cut taxes and balance the budget.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_03: Mom mistake about it.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_03: We can cut taxes and balance the budget.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_03: The American people want change.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_03: Not just little change.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_03: They want fundamental change.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_03: They want radical change.
• 11:39
  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 book.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_04: A commitment to our Republican ideas and values of balancing the budget, cutting taxes, reducing the size of the federal government, and returning power to the states.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_04: But then Bob Dole's commitment to our Republican ideals, like leading the fight for President Reagan's tax cuts, have always inspired our party.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_04: I want to express my deep appreciation to Senator Dole for the indispensable role that he has played.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_04: And Bob, from the heart, I thank you.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_04: These times demand a conservative leader who can get things done for America.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_04: These times demand Bob Dole.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_03: There's a fundamental difference in our beliefs.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_03: Fred thinks the government ought to do it.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_03: Let the government do it.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_03: We want to return power to the states, back to the governors, back to the legislatures.
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  SPEAKER_04: The experience to change America.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_04: True welfare reform that puts people to work, fighting for the toughest drug enforcement in our nation's history.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_04: Abolishing parole for violent criminals.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_04: Mandatory sentences for those convicted of committing a crime with a gun.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_04: And appointing conservative judges who will end a liberal judicial policy.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_04: Despite our triumph over communism, the world is still a dangerous place.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_04: Defending our freedoms takes experience, maturity, and courage.
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  SPEAKER_04: And no one is more prepared than Bob Doe.
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  SPEAKER_03: We have certain priorities in America.
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  SPEAKER_03: What is our strength?
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  SPEAKER_03: We must never be reluctant about our freedoms or ashamed of our national strength.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_03: And when we take our revolution of the White House in 1996, we will vow that American foreign policies will be driven by us, not by the United Nations.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_04: Americans have always looked to their president to embody the hope of the American dream.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_04: To keep alive the flame of destiny for the next generation.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_04: Our next president will lead us into the next century.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_04: And one man stands head and shoulders above the crowd.
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  SPEAKER_03: My friends, I have the experience.
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  SPEAKER_03: I am not afraid to lead, and I know the way.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_03: To ensure that the next century will dawn on a new beginning of American greatness, prosperity, and freedom.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_03: Let us do it together.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_03: Let us begin today.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_03: God bless the United States of America.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you very much.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_04: He steps forward, ready to lead like few men in our nation's history.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_04: This courageous man who understands so much about the privilege and price of what it is to be an American.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_04: A man every American will be proud to call President of the United States, Bob Doe.