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POLITICALLY SPEAKING (History Collection) with Randal Wallace - College Republicans Meet Dole (At Grand opening of Dole South Carolina Headquarters Grand Opening , see special Event) · BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

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  SPEAKER_00: College Republicans meet Dole by Randall Wallace, staff writer for the Lander Forum newspaper.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: On October 14th, three of Lander's College Republicans headed to Columbia for the official opening of Senator Bob Dole's presidential campaign headquarters in South Carolina.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: The three were Kirby Kozart, Brian Andrews, and Randall Wallace.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: The ceremony had a list of the who's who of South Carolina Republican politics, and Senator Dole himself was on hand.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: Senator Dole was joined by his wife Elizabeth Dole, president of the International Red Cross, South Carolina Governor David Beasley, Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler, Attorney General Charlie Condon, and former Governor Carol Campbell.
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  SPEAKER_00: Condon read a letter from South Carolina Senator J.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Strom Thurman, who was running a marathon in Columbia, South Carolina, at age 94, I might add.
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  SPEAKER_00: In his letter, Senator Thurman praised Bob Dole for what he called a superb leadership in the U.S.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Senate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Governor Beasley and Campbell both spoke at the ceremony.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Campbell said, We should unite behind Dole, the best candidate who can defeat Clinton in 1996.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: Governor Beasley praised Dole for fighting for conservative causes when it was not politically expedient to do that.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: Then Senator Dole took the podium and talked about the accomplishments of the Senate over the past week and what he planned to do during the Dole administration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dole talked about the new Republican bill that will give families a$500 tax credit per child, a provision protecting middle-income families and small business owners from the inheritance tax, and a tax he said he would try to do away with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, he talked about a capital tax gain tax cut that had just been pushed through the Senate.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: He said he wanted to thank the people for making it possible by electing Republican majorities in both houses of Congress.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Senator Droll was straight after President Clinton, saying, quote, he was AWOL, absent without leadership.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: He said the president seemed to make most of his decisions based on the polls and not convictions.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: And he said that the president should lift the arms embargo on Bosnian before sending 25,000 troops there and said, let them defend themselves when we won't have to, then we won't have to.
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  SPEAKER_00: He promised that a Dole administration would send the power back to the states.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: He pointed out that under the leadership in the House and Senate, that is already happening with welfare, Medicare, and the end of unfunded mandates.
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  SPEAKER_00: When his speech was over, Senator Dole stayed around for about a half hour signing autographs and posing for pictures.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was during this period that the Lander group was able to meet and talk to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: One in the group, Kirby Kozar, is pledging Kappa Sigma, the fraternity in which Bob Dole is a member, and the Senator was happy to hear it and told Kirby to keep up, keep those Kappa Sigs on the ball down there.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: Then the Senator also sent a message to the students at Lander to hang in there, keep up the hard work, and we need all the college students to vote.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: The Dole campaign also donated Bob Dole, an American hero, video to the Lander University Republicans, and they have in turn donated it to the Jackson Library.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: This may, this way, it can be seen by many Lander students that would like to see it.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: The next major event on the political calendar happens here in Greenwood when Senator Phil Graham of Texas comes to deliver an address at the Greenwood Republican Convention on October 28th at the Greenwood Warhouse.