The guest list at Friday’s groundbreaking of the Dole Institute of Politics included some notable Kansas political figures.
Sen. Sam Brownback, Gov. Bill Graves, former Govs. Mike Hayden and Bill Avery, Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh and several Kansas legislators were among those attending.
The list also included three former Kansas Senate presidents Dick Bond, Bud Burke and Robert Talkington and former Kansas Atty. Gen. Robert C. Londerholm.
“I think his best impact on Kansas is really his philosophy and the way he stood for things,” Brownback said. “He was unabashedly patriotic. He believed in the basics God and country and spilled his own blood for those causes. You don’t hear heroes calling themselves that, but Bob Dole is one.”
At the groundbreaking, Graves told of his experiences with Dole including a fund-raising event during Graves’ campaign in 1994, Dole’s announcement that he’d seek the 1996 presidential nomination and Dole’s speech as he resigned from the Senate.
“I know I speak for many Kansans when I say how proud we are that you have been proud to call Kansas home,” Graves said.
The guest list at Friday’s groundbreaking of the Dole Institute of Politics included some notable Kansas political figures.
Sen. Sam Brownback, Gov. Bill Graves, former Govs. Mike Hayden and Bill Avery, Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh and several Kansas legislators were among those attending.
The list also included three former Kansas Senate presidents Dick Bond, Bud Burke and Robert Talkington and former Kansas Atty. Gen. Robert C. Londerholm.
“I think his best impact on Kansas is really his philosophy and the way he stood for things,” Brownback said. “He was unabashedly patriotic. He believed in the basics God and country and spilled his own blood for those causes. You don’t hear heroes calling themselves that, but Bob Dole is one.”
At the groundbreaking, Graves told of his experiences with Dole including a fund-raising event during Graves’ campaign in 1994, Dole’s announcement that he’d seek the 1996 presidential nomination and Dole’s speech as he resigned from the Senate.
“I know I speak for many Kansans when I say how proud we are that you have been proud to call Kansas home,” Graves said.
The guest list at Friday’s groundbreaking of the Dole Institute of Politics included some notable Kansas political figures.
Sen. Sam Brownback, Gov. Bill Graves, former Govs. Mike Hayden and Bill Avery, Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh and several Kansas legislators were among those attending.
The list also included three former Kansas Senate presidents Dick Bond, Bud Burke and Robert Talkington and former Kansas Atty. Gen. Robert C. Londerholm.
“I think his best impact on Kansas is really his philosophy and the way he stood for things,” Brownback said. “He was unabashedly patriotic. He believed in the basics God and country and spilled his own blood for those causes. You don’t hear heroes calling themselves that, but Bob Dole is one.”
At the groundbreaking, Graves told of his experiences with Dole including a fund-raising event during Graves’ campaign in 1994, Dole’s announcement that he’d seek the 1996 presidential nomination and Dole’s speech as he resigned from the Senate.
“I know I speak for many Kansans when I say how proud we are that you have been proud to call Kansas home,” Graves said.
The guest list at Friday’s groundbreaking of the Dole Institute of Politics included some notable Kansas political figures.
Sen. Sam Brownback, Gov. Bill Graves, former Govs. Mike Hayden and Bill Avery, Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh and several Kansas legislators were among those attending.
The list also included three former Kansas Senate presidents Dick Bond, Bud Burke and Robert Talkington and former Kansas Atty. Gen. Robert C. Londerholm.
“I think his best impact on Kansas is really his philosophy and the way he stood for things,” Brownback said. “He was unabashedly patriotic. He believed in the basics God and country and spilled his own blood for those causes. You don’t hear heroes calling themselves that, but Bob Dole is one.”
At the groundbreaking, Graves told of his experiences with Dole including a fund-raising event during Graves’ campaign in 1994, Dole’s announcement that he’d seek the 1996 presidential nomination and Dole’s speech as he resigned from the Senate.
“I know I speak for many Kansans when I say how proud we are that you have been proud to call Kansas home,” Graves said.
