A 20-Year Journey's Lessons, Impressions; Dole's First National Campaign Set Stage for His Current Candidacy From: The Washington Post | Date: August 11, 1996| Author: David Maraniss | Copyright 1996 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The long journey of Robert Joseph Dole toward the Republican nomination for president began with a moment of surprise at 10:18 on an August morning 20 years ago. It was then, inside a crowded suite at the Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, that President Gerald R. Ford, exhausted from an all-night session with his political advisers, turned to an aide and uttered in his heavy-whisper voice: "All right. Let's get Bob Dole on the phone."

No one in the Ford entourage knew Dole's telep...

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