Category: US Politics
March 21, 2013
Bob Dole, presidential nominee for 1996 US Elections, seeks opinion from Alikhan for campaign Mir Mohammad Alikhan was amongst the few people to advise Bob Dole on 1996 Presidential Campaign. Following is the letter he wrote to Mir Mohammad Alikhan as part of the survey sent to eminent people from political and financial fraternity:
Robert Joseph “Bob” Dole (born July 22, 1923) is an American politician who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996 and the House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969. In the 1976 presidential election he was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President and incumbent President Gerald Ford’s running mate. In the presidential election of 1996 he was the Republican nominee for President against incumbent Bill Clinton.
In 2007, President George W. Bush appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with Donna Shalala, a former member of the Clinton cabinet. Bob Dole is currently a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and special counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of lawy firm Alston & Bird.
Dole is married to former U.S. cabinet member and former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Hanford
Dole of North Carolina.
