The juice on Bob Dole

[Peter Trachtenberg]

He also has--or at least had--a notorious mean streak. A friend worked on 
the production end of Dole's autobiography some years back and reports 
that the man was so abusive that the entire publishing house cheered when 
the book bombed.

On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Chris Horymski wrote:

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> >  From: "Thomas N. Dennis" <tdennis at mindspring.com>, on 6/15/96 10:42 AM:
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> >  > From: Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt
> >  > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >  > Subject: The juice on Bob Dole
> >  > Date: Friday, June 14, 1996 3:53 PM
> >  > 
> >  > A question for USians: We have heard about the Bush clan, we all now 
> >  > about Reagan (I still can't believe that WW2 bomber story of his) but 
> >  > what about Bob Dole? Apart from his sense of humour, what other 
> >  > liabilities does he have?
> >  > 
> >  > hg
> >  > hag at iafrica.com
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  HAG:
> >  Advanced age and a tendency to speak--as well as think, perhaps--of
> >  himself in the third person--
> >  TND
> >  
> 
> Bob Dole doesn't skew well with female and younger voters. Bob Dole 
> has a quick temper that gets Bob Dole into trouble every now and then.
>   
> Bob Dole has a pretty decent sense of humor, actually.  But Bob Dole
> may side with humorless conservatives if that's the expedient thing for
> Bob Dole to do. 
> 
> Chris
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