E. Dole remembers Jack Kemp

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on May 4, 2009 - 9:25am.
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Former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole remembered Jack Kemp Sunday.

Speaking with her husband Bob at a lecture at the University of Kansas, Dole told a crowd of between 500 and 1,000 students that the former Congressman was full of energy and enthusiasm when he helped her campaign in North Carolina.

"Jack believed in what he was doing with all his heart," she said, according to the Topeka Capital Journal. "He will be truly missed."

Kemp, a former Congressman who was Bob Dole's vice presidential pick, died of cancer Saturday. In October, he campaigned on a bus tour for Elizabeth Dole's re-election with Sen. Richard Burr in five mountain counties.

She also said she was disappointed with Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to switch parties and with the recent tone in Washington.

"In recent years, it's become much more raucous," she said, according to KTKA TV. "You feel like it's almost combat now. I do think we have to work hard at getting that civility back."

Dole added that she and her husband also plan to go on the NutriSystem diet plan.

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Re: E. Dole remembers Jack Kemp

Submitted by davet on May 4, 2009 - 10:25pm.

I didn't know that Elizabeth was still with us! So glad to see that she's still among the living, I surely am.

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Re: E. Dole remembers Jack Kemp

Submitted by CharlesEB on May 4, 2009 - 10:25am.

Is it safe to be on the nutrisystem diet and viagra?

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Re: E. Dole remembers Jack Kemp

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on May 4, 2009 - 9:43am.

My mistake. Fixed.

— RTB 

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Re: E. Dole remembers Jack Kemp

Submitted by littleboyblue on May 4, 2009 - 9:40am.

I don't think Jack Kemp was ever a senator:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000086

KEMP, Jack French, a Representative from New York; born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., July 13, 1935; B.A., Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif., 1957; United States Army Reserve, 1958-1962 (active duty, 1958); professional football player, 1957-1970; special assistant to the Governor of California, 1967; staff, Republican National Committee, 1969; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1989); was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred First Congress in 1988, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States; United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1989-1993; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1996; died on May 2, 2009, in Bethesda, Md.

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