Steve Roberts ABC News - December 6 , 2021 - KRDO‘s Morning News

Former US Senator Bob Dole passed away over the weekend, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation said in a statement Sunday. Dole served in many roles in his nearly eighty year career. As an Army officer in World War II, he was wounded while on a mission in Northern Italy. Though there were doubts at the time he’d survive, Dole went on to run for public office – first serving in the Kansas House of Representatives and then at the national level as a Republican to the 87th Congress. In 1964, he voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act, and in 1965 voted in favor of the Voting Rights Act. In the early 1970s, he served as the chairman of the Republican National Committee, including during the 1972 election and Watergate break-in. Dole ran three times for president. He lost in primaries in 1980 to Ronald Reagan and in 1988 to George H.W. Bush. He won the Republican party nomination in 1996, but lost the general election to Bill Clinton. In 1997, months after losing the presidential election, Clinton presented Dole with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Steve looks back on the life of a lawmaker he knew very well, and can tell you what lessons modern Washington can learn from the legacy of Bob Dole.