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周四,鲍勃·多尔将躺在国会大厦,作为国家对美国参议员、战争英雄的纪念

2021-12-07 13:24   美国新闻网   - 

前共和党参议员鲍勃·多尔,一位在二战中受伤的授勋老兵,代表堪萨斯州在国会工作了36年记得在美国国会大厦周四在华盛顿国家大教堂举行葬礼。

据他的家人说,多尔周日早上在睡梦中去世。他98岁了。

众议院议长南希·佩洛西和参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默周一宣布,被称为“参议院最后的雄狮”之一的多尔将于周四在美国国会大厦圆形大厅安息,这是为最受尊敬的美国人保留的荣誉。

佩洛西在一份声明中说:“从众议院议长到参议院议长,作为总统候选人和资深政治家,他是我们军人、退伍军人和军人家庭的最重要倡导者之一。“在这个悲伤的时刻,一个感恩的国家和他们一起哀悼,这可能是对他亲爱的妻子、他亲爱的女儿和他所有亲人的安慰。”

由于正在进行的新冠肺炎和疫情对omicron变体的担忧议员们说,仪式将只对受邀嘉宾开放,但美国人可以在线观看这项服务。

参议院少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)说:“无论他们的政治主张如何,任何看到鲍勃·多尔行动的人都不得不钦佩他的品格和深厚的爱国主义精神。”麦康奈尔最近超越了多尔的纪录,成为历史上任职时间最长的共和党参议院领袖之一。“我们中那些有幸亲自了解鲍勃的人更加钦佩他。鲍勃在华盛顿的整个职业生涯以及此后的岁月里,从他少年时期的战斗英雄事迹开始,一路闪耀着爱国主义的光辉。”

乔·拜登总统下令所有旗帜在周四降半旗以纪念多尔。

在第二次世界大战中,多尔是一名陆军军官,他在战斗中受了重伤,右臂行动不便,但他坚持了下来。多尔继续攻读法律研究生,在堪萨斯州立法机构任职,并代表他的家乡所在的州在众议院任职四届,在参议院任职五届。他领导参议院共和党会议超过十年。

在国会,他帮助制定税收和外交政策,以及政府的农业和营养项目。他是退伍军人和美国残疾人权利的倡导者,率先在1990年的《美国残疾人法案》中纳入了在就业、教育和公共服务方面不受歧视的保护。

多尔三次竞选总统,1980年在初选中输给了罗纳德·里根,1988年输给了老布什。1996年,他赢得了共和党提名,但在大选中输给了寻求连任的比尔·克林顿。在总统选举失败几个月后,克林顿在白宫向多尔颁发了总统自由勋章。

PHOTO: Former Senator Bob Dole reacts after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in ceremonies at the White House, Jan. 17, 1997.

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前参议员鲍勃·多尔在cer获得总统自由勋章后做出反应...

他在2005年出版的回忆录《一个士兵的故事》中写道:“那些关键时刻在你的心中留下了不可磨灭的印象。“对我来说,我人生的决定性时期不是竞选这个国家的最高职位。它开始于几年前,在一个外国,那里几乎没有人知道我的名字。”

美国广播公司新闻部政治主任里克·克莱因写道,多尔“没有执着于参议院或他的共和党是什么或应该是什么的早已过时的观念”,相反,“在共和党内找到了一个家,从前总统理查德·尼克松到唐纳德·特朗普,以及其间的任何地方。”

失业救济金宣布的今年2月,他被诊断为4期肺癌,并开始接受治疗。

伊丽莎白·多尔基金会在一份声明中说:“我们怀着沉重的心情宣布,参议员罗伯特·鲍勃·多尔今天凌晨在睡梦中去世。”声明星期天。"他去世时,享年98岁,为美利坚合众国忠心耿耿地服务了79年。"

多尔的妻子伊丽莎白和女儿罗宾陪伴了他46年。

Bob Dole to lie in state at Capitol on Thursday as nation honors US senator, war hero

Former GOP Sen. Bob Dole -- a decorated World War II veteran wounded in action who went on to represent Kansas in Congress for 36 years -- will beremembered at the U.S. Capitolon Thursday ahead of a funeral on Friday at the Washington National Cathedral.

Dole died in his sleep Sunday morning, according to his family. He was 98.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Monday that Dole -- known as one of the "last lions of the Senate" -- will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Thursday, an honor reserved for the most revered Americans.

"From the Well of the House to the Floor of the Senate, as a presidential candidate and as an elder statesman, he was one of the foremost advocates for our Servicemembers, veterans and military families," Pelosi said in a statement. "May it be a comfort to his loving wife, his dear daughter and all his loved ones that a grateful nation joins them in mourning during this sad time."

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic andconcerns over the omicron variant, the ceremony will be open only to invited guests, lawmakers said, but Americans can stream the service online.

"Whatever their politics, anyone who saw Bob Dole in action had to admire his character and his profound patriotism," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently passed Dole's record as one of the longest-serving Republican Senate leaders in history. "Those of us who were lucky to know Bob well ourselves admired him even more. A bright light of patriotic good cheer burned all the way from Bob's teenage combat heroics through his whole career in Washington and through the years since."

President Joe Biden ordered all flags to be flown at half-staff through Thursday to honor Dole.

While an Army officer in World War II, Dole was severely wounded in action and left with limited mobility in his right arm -- but he persevered. Dole went on to graduate law school, serve in the Kansas state legislature and represent his home state for four terms in the House of Representatives and five terms in the Senate. He led the Senate Republican Conference for more than a decade.

In Congress, he helped shape tax and foreign policy, as well as govenment farm and nutrition programs. He was an advocate for the rights of veterans and Americans with disabilities, spearheading the inclusion of protections against discrimination in employment, education and public services in the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.

Dole ran three times for president, losing in primaries in 1980 to Ronald Reagan and in 1988 to George H.W. Bush. In 1996, he won the Republican party nomination but lost the general election to Bill Clinton, who was seeking a second term. Months after losing the presidential election, Clinton presented Dole with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House.

"Those pivotal moments remain indelibly impressed in your heart and mind," he wrote in "One Soldier's Story," his memoir published in 2005. "For me, the defining period in my life was not running for the highest office in the land. It started years earlier, in a foreign country, where hardly anyone knew my name."

ABC News Political Director Rick Klein writes that Dole "did not cling to long-gone notions of what the Senate or his Republican Party was or should be" and, instead, "found a home inside the GOP from former presidents Richard Nixon to Donald Trump and everywhere in between."

Doleannouncedin February that he'd been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and was starting treatment.

"It is with heavy hearts we announce that Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning in his sleep," the Elizabeth Dole Foundation said in astatementon Sunday. "At his death, at age 98, he had served the United States of America faithfully for 79 years."

Dole is survived by his wife of 46 years, Elizabeth, and his daughter, Robin.

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