Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Expectably, there was some gleefully negative reaction in both parties. Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson asked: "If he's like that with Loeb, what would he do with Brezhnev?" Added Republican National Chairman Robert Dole: "I don't blame Muskie for crying. If I had to run against Richard Nixon, I'd do a lot of crying...
Next day, when many assumed that the battle was over, Kansas Senator Robert Dole, chairman of the Republican National Committee, slyly offered an almost identical amendment. He again alerted Agnew to be on hand. "We had word," Dole explained later, "that Muskie had to leave, that McGovern had taken off. We thought we might just luck out." The Senate leaders, Democrat Mansfield and Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, were battling hard for a less restrictive antibusing measure of their own. At the end of the roll call, the Dole amendment led, 40 to 37. Then stragglers walked dramatically into the chamber...
...found a plump target in Muskie's peace plan at a time when the President was still trying to get the North Vietnamese to accept his own proposal. The President's men lined up the guns and pulled the lanyards one by one. Republican National Chairman Bob Dole warned that Muskie's speech announcing' his plan "may have greatly damaged the prospects for peace in Viet Nam." Herb Klein, the White House communications director, charged that some of the Democrats "seem to parrot Hanoi's line." Repeating a joke he had heard at a Washington...
Divorced. Robert J. Dole, 48, Junior U.S. Senator from Kansas and for the past year chairman of the Republican National Committee; by Phyllis Dole, 47; on grounds of incompatibility; after 23 years of marriage, one daughter; in Topeka, Kans...
Supreme Irony. After that, Bunker returned to Thieu's palace, this time with Kansas Senator Robert Dole, the chairman of Richard Nixon's Republican National Committee. A little pressure was evidently needed to convince Thieu that something had to be done. Next morning, the Supreme Court ruled that Ky had enough valid endorsements to qualify as a candidate after...