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Dole talks like someone who is a long way from retirement. "You've got to like this business, and I like politics," he told TIME. "Dan Quayle had me right when he said, 'When Bob Dole has a day off, he goes to a fund raiser.' " The Doles have never been much for the capital's social scene. They still live in the two-bedroom Watergate apartment that was Dole's bachelor pad after his divorce from his first wife Phyllis. Most evenings, they have their dinner on TV trays as they watch rented videos or an old-movie channel.
Markedly out of step with Newt Gingrich's headlong march to the future, Dole's campaign evokes a more heroic era. Dole first started giving new thought to running during last summer's D-day anniversary celebrations, where other veterans greeted him as a hero, bringing their children and grandchildren to meet him. Until then, he had agreed with the idea that Bill Clinton's election marked a new generation. Now, he believes he has been given another chance: "Maybe there is one more mission. Maybe there is one more call to serve."