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SENATOR BOB DOLE OF KANSAS FIGHTS LIKE BULLDOG FOR GOP BY VICTOR LASKY NORTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE WASHINGTON, SEPT. 18 (NANA) -- AMONG THOSE AVAILABLE TO CAMPAIGN EFFECTIVELY ON ADMINISTRATION ISSUES, MORE AND MORE ATTENTION IS BEING PAID TO REPUBLICAN SENATOR ROBERT DOLE OF KANSAS. DOLE SPENT EIGHT YEARS AS A RELATIVELY OBSCURE MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BEFORE BEING ELECTED TO THE SENATE IN 1968. BUT AS A FRESHMAN SENATOR, STILL WITH LESS THAN TWO YEARS IN THAT BODY, HE HAS BLOSSOMED AS A MAJOR SPOKESMAN FOR THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION. HIS WILLINGNESS TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED ON THE PRESIDENT'S BEHALF, HIS CONSTANT PRESENSE ON THE FLOOR AS SOMETIMES THE SOLE DEFENDER OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS HARD-NCB ED APPROACH TO DEBATE HAVE BROUGHT HIM CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION AT A TIME WHEN THE ELECTED LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN LESS THAN CONSTANT IN ITS SUPPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION. ALREADY THERE IS TALK AMONG ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTERS IN THE SENATE OF HIS BEING ELECTED TO ONE OF THE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS.

MEANWHILE, AS ELECTION DAY NEARS, THE POLITICAL STARS OF BOTH PARTIES ARE TAKING TO THE STUMP TO CAMPAIGN FOR THE ELECTION AND RE-ELECTION OF CANDIDATES THROUGHOUT THE NATION. FOR THE REPUBLICANS, THE MAN WITH THE BIGGEST VOICE IS VICE PRESIDENT AGNEW. TRYING TO COUNTER HIM ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE IS DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN LAWRENCE O'BRIEN. OTHER DEMOCRATIC LEADERS WHO MIGHT ORDINARILY BE EXPECTED TO PARTICIPATE ARE BUSY WITH CAMPAIGNS OF THEIR OWN. IS SEEKING A SEAT IN THE SENATE: , ED MUSKIE AND MIKE MANSFIELD ARE ALL UP FOR RE-ELECTION. --SCOTT, MORTON-- MUCH THE SAME IS TRUE ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE. HUGH SCOTT, THE REPUBLICAN SENATE LEADER, IS UP FOR RE-ELECTION. EVEN GOP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN ROBERS C.B. MORTON IS LIMITED BY THE FACT THAT HE MUST CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION TO THE HOUSE. ALTHOUGH SENATOR DOLE HAS NOT INDICATED PUBLICLY THAT This press release is from the collections at the Robert J. Dole Archive and Special Collections, University of Kansas. NANA lASKY -Dofwase contact us with any questions or comments: http://dolearchive.ku.edu/ask

THIS IS HIS GOAL, HE IS SPENDING ALL DiE TIME HE CAN MUSTER THIS

SUMMER AND FALL HELPING SENATE CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION AND RE-

ELECTION. THOSE WHO WIN JUST MAY FEEL AN OBLIGATION.

DOLE HAS APPEARED SO FAR FOR EIGHT SENATORIAL CANDIDATES. HE

HAS NINE MORE SUCH ENGAGEMENTS AND FOUR FOR REPRESENTATIVES SEEKING

RE-ELECTION.

IN BETWEEN TIMES ~ HE IS ATTEMPTING TO RAISE MONEY FOR TilE

KINDS OF CANDIDATES HE THINKS WILL SUPPORT TilE PRESIDENT MOST OF

THE TIME. DOLE PRIDES HIMSELF ON THE AMOUNT OF WORK HE IS DOING ON

BEHALF OF TilE PRES I DENT AND THE PARTY. HE IS IRRITATED--AND MAKES

NO EFFORT TO HIDE HIS IRRITATION--WITii REPUBLICAN SENATORS SUCH AS

MARK HATFIElD OF , CHARLES PERCY OF ILLINOIS AND EDWARD

BROOKE OF MASSACHUSETTS WHO SEEMINGLY PRIDE TiiEMSELVES ON THEIR

ABILITY TO DIFFER WITH THE PRESIDENT ON MATTERS OF REAL SIGNIFI-

CANCE, SUCH AS NATIONAL DEFENSE, TilE WAR IN VIETNAM AND SUPREME

COURT APPOINTEES. DOLE'S TOUGH ATTACKS HAVE LED BROOKE TO COMPlAIN

ABOUT HIM TO THE SENATE REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE AND HATFIElD TO

PROTEST PUBLICLY TilE AMOUNT OF RANCOR BEING EVIDENCED BY SOME. HE

HAS NOT MENTIONED DOLE, BUT THE IMPLICATION IS CLEAR.

--Gur FIGHTER--

Bur DOLE'S BLUNTNESS IN EXPRESSING HIS FEELINGS HAS ALSO WON

HIM ADMIRATION AS THE NEWEST OF TilE SENATE'S REAL GUT FIGHTERS.

''HE IS TilE KIND OF A MAN WHO WILL GRAB YOU BY TilE HAIR AND

DAAG YOU DCMN TilE HILL," ARE TilE WORDS OF SEN. BARRY GOLIMATER, ONE

OF DOLE'S GREATEST ADMIRERS.

SEN. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, THE PEACENIK CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE

FOREIGN RElATIONS COMMITTEE, HAS TANGLED WITH DOLE TO HIS REGRET.

IN SEEKING TO MINIMIZE TilE IMPORTANCE OF TilE GULF OF TONKIN RESO-

LUTION, WHICH WAS THE VEHICLE PRESIDENT JOHNSON USED TO EXPAND TilE

WAR IN VIETNAM, DOLE INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION TO REPEAL IT--AN

ACTION FULBRIGHT ALSO WAS PlANNING FOR EXACTLY TilE OPPOSITE REASON.

FULBRIGHT WAS OUTRAGED. "YOU, SIR," HE CHARGED DOLE, ''HAVE

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'm, SIR," DOLE REPLIED, "I HAVE ONLY MILKED HER A LITI'LE."

THE DOLE WIT IS ALSO BECCMING KN~ ON mE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND

IN PARTY CIRCLES IN GENERAL.

'nilS, COMBINED WI'nl HIS YOtrrH--HE IS JUST 46--HIS DAPPER AND

DARK GOOD LOOKS, HAS BROUGHT HIM INCREASING NUMBERS OF INVITATIONS

TO SPEAK. HE WAS nlE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT FOUR STATE REPUBLICAN CON­

VENTIONS DURING THE SUMMER.

A NATIVE KANSAN, DOLE IS ALSO AN AUTHENTIC WAR HERO WITH A

CRIPPLED ARM TO SHOW FOR WOUNDS SUFFERED IN ITALY DURING WORLD WAR

II.

THAT MISHAP, H

HE IS A HAWK ON VIETNAM AND A BULLDOG ON JUST ABOtrr ANY O'mER ISSUE

tliAT ARISES IN THE SENATE. IT IS THIS RARE C

Ca.mATIVENESS AND LOYALTY tliAT HAS A'ITRACTED A G~ING NUMBER OF

ADMIRERS, INCLUDING PRESIDENT NIXOO.

IT IS THAT COMBINATIOO ALSO THAT MANY EXPECT WILL PAY OFF FOR

DOLE BOTH IN HIS PARTY AND IN THE SENATE. WI'niOtrr QUESTION, HE IS

ONE OF THE YOUNGER REPUBLICANS MOST WORI'H WATCHING.

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