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Robert Dornan: Would the gentleman want to add a note of excitement to his special order tonight? My middle daughter of 5 sons and…

On the recordJuly 30, 1996
Would the gentleman want to add a note of excitement to his special order tonight? My middle daughter of 5 sons and daughters just called in a play. She did not mean to, but she knew it was your special order and I maybe could bolt for the Cloakroom phone booth for just a second. She told me that it is all over the news, they are speculating on who our good friend Bob Dole's Vice President might be. It is an outsider, never been elected to office, but he wrote a book that had to do with that subject of values, and it is called the Book of Virtues. Bill Bennett, former Secretary of Labor, for 2 weeks head of the Republican Party, former drug czar, Director of National Drug Policy, and Secretary of Education. He appears at the moment at least, these things may come and go, to be the front runner. He has had a few dustups with the Republican Party of late, but this is a man that knows we are a country on the brink of self-destruction.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing potential Vice Presidential candidates for Bob Dole during a special order.

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