United States President Donald J. Trump says something to former US Senator Bob Dole (Republican of Kansas) as he goes to the podium to speak a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Dole's honor in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on Wednesday, January 17, 2017. Congress commissioned gold medals as its highest expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions. Dole served in Congress from 1961 through 1996, was the Senate GOP leader from 1985 through 1996, and was the 1996 Republican Party nominee for President of the United States. (Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP/Sipa USA)
DC: Trump Presents the Congressional Gold Medal to Dole
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Dole will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. President Joe Biden and others will gather Thursday to pay tribute to the man Biden called an “American giant.” The service is one of several over two days in Washington for the former Republican senator and presidential candidate. He is known as one who served the country in war and in politics with pragmatism, self-deprecating wit and a bygone era’s sense of common civility. He died Sunday at the age of 98 after announcing in February he had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
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