US President Joe Biden of Democratic Party (left) and former Senator Bob Dole of Republican Party (right)▶ Click here to enlarge
US President Joe Biden (78) visited former Republican Republican Bob Dole (97), who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, on the 20th (local time), reported on the 21st by the Associated Press and CNN.
President Biden and former lawmaker Dol have different political parties, but they have been eating Korean pot rice for 24 years in the Senate.
President Biden said, “He (former member of the stone) is doing well,” as he came out after a Mass at the Holy Trinity Cathedral on the afternoon of the 21st.
Dol, from Russell, Kansas, fought in the army in World War II.
He served as the Kansas State House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969, and then served as the same State Senator for 27 years until 1996.
He served twice as the Republican Senate representative, and in 2018 received the Congressional Medal of Honor, one of the highest medals in the United States.
Former Congressman Dol ran for Republican presidential candidates in 1996. He challenged the presidential election in 1980 and 1988, but failed in the primary election.
He is a representative Republican elder who emerged as a running mate to former President Gerald Ford in 1976.
President Biden served as the Delaware State Senator from 1973 to 2009.
When he was active as a senator, former Senator Dol said, “President Biden is a good friend and a good chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
He professed President Biden’s victory in the presidential election last December in an interview with Kansas regional magazine’Kansas City Star’. Said…
On the contrary, when President Biden was serving as vice president, he expressed his feelings toward former lawmaker Dol.
President Biden said in his tribute to former Congressman Dol in 2011 that “Dol has long been respected, and his dedication to veterans is incomparable.”
He also revealed a personal relationship with former lawmaker Dol, saying he had traveled to the beaches of Normandy, France.
On the 18th, former lawmaker Dol posted a post on Twitter to announce that he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
“I was recently diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, and my first treatment is on the 22nd,” he said. “There are many obstacles to overcome, but I also know that I am with millions of people suffering from serious health problems.”
Former Congressman Dol has been fighting the disease for the past 30 years.
He underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1991 and an abdominal aortic aneurysm in 2001.
In 2005, former Congressman Dol collapsed at his home and was hospitalized.
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