BOB DOLE: THE LONE RANGER

BOB DOLE WAS NEVER ONE TO SURROUND HIMSELF WITH ADVISERS. BUT NOW? THEY'VE GOT HIM SURROUNDED

IN THE MOMENTS THAT HAVE MATTERED most in Bob Dole's life, he has found himself alone. He was alone when he charged up a rocky hill to a German machine-gun nest, to be torn apart by an artillery shell. That experience took him to places where no one could help him. The surgeons could do only so much. His mother, who would have done anything for him, couldn't do anything when she came upon him hanging from the rafters of their garage by his shattered arm, trying to make it work again.

Twice before he has lost his party's nomination, and...

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