DOLE OFFERS PREVIEW OF RALLY SPEECH : WIFE PAINTS PERSONAL PICTURE OF CANDIDATE.Byline: Curt Anderson Curt Anderson, is an American politician, lawyer and former broadcast journalist. Anderson, the chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation, [1] was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1983. After serving 12 years he was elected again in 2002. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Elizabeth Dole gave a preview Tuesday of her highly personal convention speech about her husband, saying he exemplifies the Kansas state motto: ``To the stars, through difficulty.'' In a sort of trial run Tuesday, she highlighted the stories of three women who also overcame adversity ad·ver·si·ty n. pl. ad·ver·si·ties 1. A state of hardship or affliction; misfortune. 2. A calamitous event. like her husband, Bob Dole. Elizabeth Dole will address the Republican National Convention tonight. ``They've reached the stars, through difficulty. That's a motto that's meant a lot to my husband over the years,'' she said. ``He knows about adversity.'' Elizabeth Dole told her audience at a social club begun in the 1930s for disabled people that her convention message about her husband will stress his ``brains, heart and guts.'' The talk was part of the Dole campaign strategy to highlight both Dole's modest rural Kansas background and long recovery from World War II wounds. ``It's about overcoming obstacles,'' said Dole's daughter, Robin Dole, in one of her few public events so far at the convention. ``As I grew up with him, I came to believe he could conquer anything.'' The women - one a battered wife with a new life, one who overcame local drug gangs and one who started her own business - were selected to represent the Republican philosophy that individuals can use their own inner resources to solve problems. Elizabeth Dole, Robin Dole and the women sat on sofas on a stage reminiscent of a morning talk show, with a mostly female audience applauding enthusiastically at each story. Elizabeth Dole plans a departure from the normal podium podium In architecture, a pedestal on a large scale. It may be any of various elements that form the base of a structure, such as the platform forming the floor and substructure of a Classical temple, a low wall supporting columns, or the structurally or decoratively speech tonight, moving around the audience with a wireless microphone A wireless microphone, as the name implies, is a microphone without a physical cable connecting it directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment with which it is associated. . Aides said she hoped to introduce several people who played roles in Dole's recovery from war wounds and others important to him later in life. Also Tuesday, Elizabeth Dole spoke at a tribute to three retiring Republican women members of Congress: Sen. Nancy Kassebaum and Rep. Jan Meyers Jan Meyers (b. July 20, 1938 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas. She was elected as a member of the Republican Party to the 99th United States Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses. , both of Kansas, and Rep. Barbara Vucanovich Barbara Farrell Vucanovich (born June 22, 1921) is a U.S. Republican politician, the first woman to represent Nevada in the United States House of Representatives, where she served from 1983 to 1997. Background Vucanovich was born in Camp Dix, New Jersey. of Nevada. Elizabeth Dole said the three show that women are no longer second class when it comes to Congress. ``We're not kept out of meetings any more. As I look around this room, we're taking charge of the meetings,'' Elizabeth Dole said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Elizabeth Dole, center, talks to women who have gain ed success by overcoming adversity at a meeting in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. on Tuesday. Associated Press |
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