but his fight was really just beginning. for months he was largely con fined to a bed as tom hanks mentioned in a full body cast. he fought blood clots and life-threatening infections and he fought despair and hope. but just as he did in the dirt on hill 913, lieutenant dole refused to give in and as we know he persevered. he heeled and went on to disti distinguish himself in the service to his country many, many times over in both the house of representatives and the senate over a 35-year political career. after leaving congress in 1996, senator dole didn t slow down. he didn t stop advocating for worthy causes and in addition to practicing law and authoring several books he served as a board member for the world food
wheelchair and walked across the rotunda to the casket and said i didn t want daniel to see me like this and touched the casket. it was really a striking moment. again, two people who worked across the aisle and were long-time howie: dole didn t like the war injuries define him. he soldiered on, so-to-speak, with a long public career and sometimes he would say harsh things in public, sometimes he was called a hatchet man. at the same time, he was one of the funniest men in politics, i remember realizing that, watching him on the campaign trail. he did a counter point thing with bill clinton so many sides to this great leader. one funny thing i remember during this, he would tell this story often, he lived at the watergate building and during the monica lewinsky scandal, she lived there, he was on the telephone with linda trip and he would go into a meeting and say i would try to call her and the line was busy.
let me finish tonight with that american moment today in the capitol, bob dole, the republican leader who never got to be president saluting george bush who did. there was was quite a rumble back in the day. bush then the vice president ran a tv ad that excoriated dole, then a kansas senator, for trying to have it both ways on a tax bill. it was called the straddle ad. it made dole looked like he lacked the guts to take a stand. dole didn t like it. when tom brokaw asked if he who had just lost a new hampshire primary had a message for the candidate who had just won, he did, tell him to stop lying about my record. i remember that moment. and though i know it made dole look bad, i always thought he had a reason to be riled. after all, we re talking about a guy who got shot and permanently handicapped when carrying a wounded fellow soldier through german fu
keep the leg and risk further illness or lose a part of himself. when i found i had to amputate it, i looked up amputees that played sports. made the promise i would be back on the field. reporter: dole would be fitted with a prosthetic, a piece of carbon fiber, where his shin, calf and foot were. for some learning to walk naturally would be difficult. dole didn t give up. within three months he was back, wrestling for his high school, and by last spring, he was running track. but there was one last place he wanted to get. more than anything, back on the football field. back to the game he loved since birth. the doctors were telling me i would never play football again. i just had that in the back of my head, like, um, you know, i kind of, driving me. reporter: and then the moment he had been waiting for. less than one year after his amputation dole made his
hasn t been there all summer, instead john oliver. guess what? starting today this evening. jon stewart making his return. he s been on a little hiatus. in jordan for the summer directing a film rosewater. i did not know. incredibly interesting. the true story of an iran-born journalist detained by iranian officials held as suspected spy in solitary confinement for three months. very special connection to stewart, apparently some of the proof they used against this journalist was very obvious and playful video that jon used on his show of that journalist dressed as a spy. and they used that over in iran against him. this holds a very deep connection to jon stewart. that s why he went over there to do it. look out for rosewater. come back today. that s the headline. looking forward to that too. fifty shades of grey did you read the book? no. cast of the movie. hear are the stars. dakota johnson, anastasia steel, and charlie humman, christian grey.