GOP convention nominates Bob Dole for president and Kemp as his running mate.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: August 15, 1996| Author: Trounstine, Philip J.; Farragher, Thomas | Copyright information

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SAN DIEGO _ Bob Dole, praised as a quiet hero of plain-spoken Midwestern virtue, was nominated for president Wednesday by the Republican National Convention and Jack Kemp, the irrepressible former quarterback, was anointed as his running mate.

``Tonight we ask Bob Dole to answer his country's call again and stand post for America _ the first post of the land _ not for his sake, but for ours,'' said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam,...

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