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Bob Dole: “A Salute to Kansas Governor Graves, Governor Thompson, Senator Kassebaum, Chairman Miller, Distinguished Guests and…”

On the recordMarch 28, 1996
A Salute to Kansas Governor Graves, Governor Thompson, Senator Kassebaum, Chairman Miller, Distinguished Guests and fellow Kansans, it is my pleasure to offer a salute to Kansas on the occasion of her 135th birthday of statehood. Having turned sixty years of age in the past year I am pleased whenever I'm invited to a birthday party for something older than I am. This past summer a book titled ``Vacation Places Rated'' was published which listed Kansas dead last as a desirable vacation spot. The vacationers surveyed apparently felt Kansas had little to offer. Such sentiments are not new. In 1867 Henry Stanley wrote, ``Tourists through Kansas would call this place dull enough . . . For a passing traveler in search of pleasure, it certainly possesses few attractions.'' If one is in search of a sandy sea-side shore or a snow-capped mountain peak Kansas is not the place to look.
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Senator Dole commemorates the 135th anniversary of Kansas statehood.

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