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RIP, Bob Dole

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Ben Domenech
Dec 06, 2021
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RIP. “Robert Joseph Dole was born on July 22, 1923, in Russell, a Kansas town of about 5,000 that’s 250 miles due west across the prairie from Kansas City. His mother sold sewing machines door-to-door and his father had a retail dairy. He was a pre-med student at the University of Kansas, where he played football and basketball, before being summoned t…

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