THE SOUL OF DOLE

HOW DID THIS MAN EARN THE CHANCE TO RUN SUCH A BAD CAMPAIGN, AND WHY IS HE SO CALM ABOUT IT?

Bob Dole says he trusts in the hard way, and well he might, hailing from the garden of pressed sand called western Kansas, where the weather's hard, the water's hard, and anything that comes easy probably isn't worth having. This way, the hard way, says Dole, is the only way he has ever got anything and anywhere in this life. It is how he swallowed his pride as he and his family moved into the basement of his boyhood home so that oilmen could move in above them. How he came home from World War II not alive or dead but...

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