# Bob Dole is 97 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 17, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549 "2020-07-17T04:40:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/41 "2021-02-19T19:37:07Z")
I like elder statesmen that didn’t endorse narcissistic sociopaths. He was a decent guy, but you can’t love Donald and the Constitution, you must love one and hate the other. He made the wrong choice. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/42 "2021-02-19T21:56:43Z")
I wonder how mentally with it Dole has been the last few years to support someone like Trump who not only trampled over decency but basic long-held Republican orthodoxy on things like trade. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/43 "2021-02-19T23:54:47Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I wonder how mentally with it Dole has been the last few years to support someone like Trump I wonder the same about 70 million other people. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/44 "2021-02-20T03:27:07Z")
At his age, chances are he did, at least in his earlier years. He’s also a survivor of prostate cancer, which in time led to his endorsement of Viagra, which he and Libby both have said he did use. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/45 "2021-02-20T04:11:03Z")
> [@Lantern2](#): > > How many WW2 vets who later became major US political figures are still alive? Jimmy Carter. He was at the naval academy during the war, so he didn’t see combat, but still counts as a WWII vet. Also John Warner (Navy petty officer in WWII, Naval officer in the Korean War, Secretary of the Navy under Nixon, and five terms as US Senator from Virginia). ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/46 "2021-02-21T00:42:24Z")
I just heard on CNN that Joe Biden paid Mr. Dole a visit. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/47 "2021-02-21T02:57:08Z")
I was glancing through this list of living former members of the Cabinet: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_living\_former\_members\_of\_the\_United\_States\_Cabinet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_former_members_of_the_United_States_Cabinet) and was thinking W. Michael Blumental might qualify (Carter’s Secretary of the Treasury) and it turned out he was a Jewish refugee from the Holocaust and spent the war years in the Shanghai Ghetto (for Jewish refugees). I found this early history quite surprising for the rich CEO of Bendix Corporation. > **[W. Michael Blumenthal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Michael_Blumenthal)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Werner Michael Blumenthal (born January 3, 1926) is a German-American business leader, economist and political adviser who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979. > At age thirteen, Blumenthal barely escaped Nazi Germany with his Jewish family in 1939. He was forced to spend World War II living in the ghetto of Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, until 1947. He then made his way to San Franci... > **[Shanghai Ghetto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Ghetto)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Shanghai Ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkew district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai (the ghetto was located in the southern Hongkou and southwestern Yangpu districts which formed part of the Shanghai International Settlement). The area included the community around the Ohel Moshe Synagogue. Shanghai was notable for a long period as the only place in... ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/48 "2021-02-21T03:28:58Z")
Give the circumstances one can only hope that the previous poster’s board name is not an omen. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/49 "2021-02-21T17:01:46Z")
Meh, I certainly wouldn’t ask. 🙂 **Bob Dole is 97** …and I’m Chevy Chase… ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/50 "2021-02-21T17:30:44Z")
Back in 1996 I bought myself a button that read “Dole IS 96.” I probably still have it around somewhere. Missed my opportunity by THAT much! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/51 "2021-02-21T21:35:20Z")
There was a large Jewish population in Shanghai starting in the 30s. A friend of mine was born in Shanghai, because her parents escaped Germany and settled there. The artist Peter Max also grew up in the Shanghai ghetto. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549/52 "2021-02-21T22:31:04Z")
So did [Laurence Tribe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Tribe) (well, at least in Shanghai). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dole-is-97/915549.md?page=2)