GOODBYE TO WHATEVER MAN

THE PRESS LOVED BOB DOLE. HE WAS ONE OF US

It hurts so bad. It was O.K. when Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon blamed liberal media bias for their troubles. But to hear that from Bob Dole, after all we did for him, it really hurts.

Bob Dole knows that Bob Dole is being unfair here. To the extent that the Washington media like anyone, they like Dole. Forget the simple man from Kansas. Bob Dole is one of us--hothouse specimens of the genus Beltway, with nearly identical customs, habitats and native costumes. We ate the same Senate bean soup (on the menu since around 1903 and still only $1 a...

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