Posted on 12/09/2021 11:39:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON - In 2018, Bob Dole arose from his wheelchair to salute the American flag-draped casket of George H.W. Bush — reaching past decades of a fierce political rivalry to offer a touching final tribute from one World War II veteran to another.
As an aide lifted him from his wheelchair, Dole slowly steadied himself before Bush’s casket in the Capitol Rotunda and saluted his one-time nemesis with his left hand, a necessity after he was hit by a shell fragment in Italy in 1945 and never regained use of his right hand.
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Read my lips.
Dole supported Trump, None of the Bushes did except the one in Texas who still wants a political career.
So true!
It was a different world, and America had a very different place in it in their formative years. We all know society wa
The burden of empire has greatly damaged the Republic.
I suspected that America was in a lot of trouble the day Bob Dole - a truly honorable man - lost the election to Bill Clinton - a true scoundrel.
The 19th Amendment and the 1965 Immigration Act were the beginning of the end...
Two WWII vets. A conversation Biden or Obama wouldn’t be interested in.
As an ex-military officer, I would have given Bush a less than honorable salute.
Look at the harm to the country the Bushes have done. And, we are supposed to be grateful, because they were not as bad as the democrat they were running against?
Never forgot bush at the UN mentioning a new world order
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