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I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

Bob Dole

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Bob Dole
Age: 101
Born: 1923
Born: July 22
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Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.
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