'My fellow Americans, America has lost one of our greatest patriots.' Pres. Biden eulogizes late Sen. Bob Dole. Read more:
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"Nearly eight decades on, we’ve gathered here in a world far different from the mountainous battlefield in 1945. But there's something that connects that past and present, wartime and peace, then and now," Biden said."The courage, the grit, the goodness, and the grace of a 2nd lieutenant named Bob Dole, who became congressman Dole, senator Dole, statesman, husband, father, friend, colleague, and a word that’s often overused but not here, a genuine hero.
Biden, who served with Dole in the Senate for 25 years and has praised the late Kansas lawmaker for wit that crossed party lines, also remarked on Dole's service to the nation on Thursday at a Capitol ceremony as Dole lay in state -- an honor reserved for the most revered American officials.
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