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...ROBERT CRAMER (D) District 5 (North--Huntsville...
...after joining the Dole campaign, I managed to position myself up close to the Senator so that I could get a sense of what he was like as he worked the ropes during a campaign rally. I was carrying a copy of Bob Dole, the biography by Richard Ben Cramer. The candidate abruptly turned and reached out to sign it, assuming that I was just part of the crowd...
...because they are inspired by Cline's music, not by biographical eccentricities. Square-faced and tending to stoutness, Cline left no legacy of iconic beauty or notorious anecdotes. She was all voice, in the days when pop intersected with country. On her albums, swirling violins would blend with Floyd Cramer's tinkly piano and the unobtrusive harmonies of the Jordanaires. She recorded songs by the top country scribes (Hank Cochran, Willie Nelson, Don Gibson, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens, Mel Tillis), but she also covered Cole Porter's True Love; and Walkin' After Midnight was a Tin Pan Alley tune that...
...Battlin' Bob Dole fighting for the soul of the Republican Party. Of late there has been Bob Dole, a Doer not a Talker, and now we have Bob Dole, Just a Guy Without a Tie. But Bob Dole, Citizen, may be the real thing, suggests Dole biographer Richard Ben Cramer, author of What It Takes. "His resignation," Cramer says, "puts him in touch with the younger Bob Dole, the Dole of the Russell High basketball team who would go and pat everybody on the backside when they were losing in the fourth quarter, the never-give...
...exchange, he became his mother's gladiator--to the degree that Clinton ever went to war, he did it in his own home, against his own stepfather. For Dole, growing up in Depression-era Russell, every day was a fight for survival, before he even went off to war. Cramer describes Russell as a town proud of the fact that everyone there had been broke at one time or another. When it stopped raining for a few years, the dust grew so thick they had to wrap babies in wet sheets to keep them from suffocating from the dirt...