Former Sen. Bob Dole offers emotional salute to former President George H.W. Bush
Former was helped out of his wheelchair Tuesday to salute former President George H.W. Bush as the former president lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda.
Dole, 95, once faced Bush during the 1988 Republican primary fight for the presidential nomination but nonetheless maintained a decades-old friendship with the former president.
On Saturday, Dole reflected on their relationship, telling CNN's Ana Cabrera he believes "there are certain qualities that veterans have, and when Bush was president, I think about three-fourths of Congress were veterans and we would stick together and work together across the aisle."
"President Bush was a bipartisan president. So we got quite a lot done," Dole said, adding that Bush's death was an end of an era, as Bush was the last World War II veteran to serve as president.