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Bill Press: Bob Dole: The last of his kind

In the 20 years or so that I’ve been writing a weekly column, I have studiously avoided obituaries. Because everybody else does them. Because they make me sad. Or just because. But I’m making an exception this week for Sen. Robert Dole, who died on December 5, at the age of 98.

Why? Because Bob Dole’s passing represented more than just the loss of a great patriot, who almost lost his life on the battlefield and then gave the rest

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