Served a good number of president s during his time and i know encountered the senator in your work. I wonder in moments like this, it feels like we have a eulogy for the man but also the eulogy for a time in washington where folks like this were able to speak to each other and work together. Yeah. Thats such a good observation. Bob dole was one of the last warriors of World War Are Ii and that generation remains revered through this day as setting the Gold Standard for how people ought to work with each other across the ail, how were all americans, and as the saying goes, we all came in different ships but were in the same boat now. In the same boat now. I agree, put it so well, a eulogy for the time that so much has changed. David, give us some of your observations, too, of the late senator bob dole, what it was like to engage with him and how others did in those moments. Well, i had the privilege of seeing him several times since hes been, you know, in his latter years. And he hadnt
Bill im bill hemmer. Dana we have news thats come on that. Im dana perino. The 49yearold suspect is not eligible for bail under the new york Criminal Justice system. A flurry of new charges including misdemeanor arson. Bill were told in order for a judge to set bail, that charge would have to be elevated to a felony arson. Well here under the new rules in new york were also hearing from the suspects father saying his son as a history of destructive behavior and mentally not all there and never been able to control his son. Bill his father lives in hawaii. The point of all this is to tell you at home despite what cnn is saying about us in the last hour is that New York State changed its bail laws in 2019. Then they came back and amended them again during covid. Ever since that time, april of 2019, crime has only gotten higher in cities like new york and other places around the country that weve been covering. Dana it does hit close to home. We report on the news all the time of people d
Because heres what happens and he had a cup of coffee and he had difficulty in picking it up and bob said thats not the issue, robert. We want to show civility and unity. He said i just cant do it, and i have great pride and he showed it. I tell you, if robert byrd had been in the senate these last few weeks or months, hed have collared his own party and some of us and tell you ill tell you what ate the cabbage around here, and so it was his outreach was great and then of course, dont forget we had a rule, wonderful rules unwritten, if one of our Senate Colleagues of the other party was roaming, we wouldnt go on campaign against him. That broke down at the race of tom daschle, a member of the u. S. Senate republican when they campaigned against daschle in south dakota, that broke that mold. That never got healed. So them and the people who came from the house have been tortured over there for 40 years, and didnt know the slaves, some of the slaveholders and they got tired of it, and th
Well, that is a very big subject. The president sent me a statement yesterday and quoted from something senator dole said back in the mid1980s when he was for managing the legislation that created the Martin Luther King National birthday holiday, which is one of many dole accomplishments that people perhaps are not aware of. As i recall, the quote was, no firstclass democracy would power some class secondclass citizens. It really was a lifelong belief in one that was rooted in doles upbringing. You know, it is tempting to see or define dole through his world war ii experiences, of course, his severe wounding and subsequent hospitalization, three years or more on both sides of the atlantic. But actually, bob doles character, the character that enabled him to survive that ordeal and eventually overcome it and go into politics, first of the smalltown level and then in the congress and eventually at a national level, that was something that preceded the war. That was something formed in im
University of kansas. Thank you for the time this morning. That is a very big subject. He quoted from something senator dole had said in the mid1980s when he was floor managing the legislation that created the National Birthday holiday, which is one of many accomplishments people perhaps are not aware of. As i recall, the quote is no firstclass democracy could tolerate secondclass citizens. And fact i think was a lifelong belief and one that was r rooted in his upbringing. Its tempting to see him and his experiences across the subsequent hospitalization three years or more on both sides, but actually his character that enabledra him to survive individually overcome it individually to the national level, that was something that preceded the war, that was something formed in a residence at the corner of tenth and maple street on the football field and the track. As a young man ironically, he wanted to be a doctor and the irony of course is that he would spend a good deal of his life arou