Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Narayan says Dole's cabinet experience prepared her to run a large organization like the Red Cross, and he adds that she quickly learned to lead her non-profit to greater effectiveness and unity...
This "family" feel was reinforced at last weekend's national Red Cross convention. As the keynote speaker, Dole left the podium with a microphone to circulate among the banquet tables, dazzling those in attendance by rattling off statistics and anecdotes about individual chapter delegations as she passed them...
...says Dole's impeccable memory and preparation at events like this one allow her to have confidence in spontaneity--like her recital of a story about one girl saving a nurse from drowning that Bob Dole says "had tears streaming down everyone's cheeks." They also allow her audience and her organization to feel a special bond to a leader who cares enough to learn about them as individuals, Narayan said...
While serving in a number of prominent Washington positions. Dole did not really appear in the national spotlight until 1996. when she took six months off as Red Cross President and helped run her husband's third campaign for the presidency...
Much was made in the campaign of the contrasts between Dole and her husband--she, glib and spontaneous, he, earthy and halting...