Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, who with hundreds of others in the nation's capital today is mourning the passing of his former vice presidential running mate Jack Kemp, may be approaching his 86th birthday, but the political fire still burns in his belly.
"Some days when I watch C-SPAN," the one-time Republican leader told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper, "I wish I were back."
MCCAIN IN 2012
In recent days, a woman telephoned one of Washington's more famous senior citizens, 97-year-old Roberta McCain, the mother of two-time Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, and invited her to a church function in suburban Maryland.
The woman, who does not wish to be identified, assumed Mrs. McCain would be driven by somebody else to the church. Just about the time the event was to begin, a car carrying only one person rolled into the church's crowded parking lot "and out popped Mrs. McCain - and she ran, in 2-inch heels, to the church."
Those looking on were "astounded," says our source, especially when Mrs. McCain, whose vigor and zest for life is well-documented (Mr. McCain says his mother still runs circles around him), explained that she "got real lost" on the way to the church, but finally found it.
Observes our source: "Still driving and wearing 2-inch heels. Gotta love her."