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he was really serious about trying to win the white house that fall. anyway, the media attention would be focused on dole, he would be in the spotlight for 24 hours, and they wanted to take advantage of that, understandably, by introducing a whole range of partisan or wedge issues to try to fire up the base in advance of the republican convention that year. dole being dole didn t do that at all. what he did in his farewell remarks on the floor of the senate was to remember the democrats like george mcgovern, with whom he d worked very closely in combatting hunger, or ted kennedy or hubert humphry. and he was in an age of political handlers, he was impossible to handle. and it drove people like that up the wall, but it s part of what endeared him to those of us who knew him perhaps a little better

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