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Article: Bob Dull: His Life & Times; Now That He's the Nominee, He's Still Not Excited
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 21, 1996
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Around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, the night he clinched the Republican
presidential nomination, Bob Dole -- accompanied, as usual, by his
miniature schnauzer Leader -- left his office from the Senate side
of the Capitol. But instead of his usual Lincoln sedan, the perk he
has long enjoyed as the Senate's Republican leader, Dole and his dog
were greeted at the carriage entrance by a Secret Service motorcade.
And the dog was having none of it.
"Go, Leader, go, Leader, go!" Dole coaxed his reluctant pooch,
gesturing emphatically toward the strange new conveyance. Leader sat
stubbornly on the steps and eyed the Chrysler sedan as though it
were an alien spaceship. "Go, Leader," Dole persisted. ...