Why Dole Can’tDoIt

I HAD not seen Robert Dole in the flesh since the Dallas convention, so, to refresh my memory, I went up to Bedford, New Hampshire, to catch his appearance at the Second Annual Political Affairs Luncheon of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors. It was the eve of the worst October blizzard since 1836, but had it been the height, Dole would have mushed in by dog-sled. For the 1988 election is a mere year away, and the leadership of the free world hangs on the good opinion of those who sell houses in Laconia and North Sandwich. I took a seat at the back of the room, behind a table of realtors sporting white plastic boaters with blue bands, and watched Old Scratch from afar.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Why Dole Can’tDoIt

I HAD not seen Robert Dole in the flesh since the Dallas convention, so, to refresh my memory, I went up to Bedford, New Hampshire, to catch his appearance at the Second Annual Political Affairs Luncheon of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors. It was the eve of the worst October blizzard since 1836, but had it been the height, Dole would have mushed in by dog-sled. For the 1988 election is a mere year away, and the leadership of the free world hangs on the good opinion of those who sell houses in Laconia and North Sandwich. I took a seat at the back of the room, behind a table of realtors sporting white plastic boaters with blue bands, and watched Old Scratch from afar.