(born 1923) (Robert) b. 1936 (Elizabeth) Republican political couple and presidential candidates. “Bob” Dole, after Second World War injuries left him partially disabled, built a career in Kansas in national politics. As senator (1969–96), he twice served as majority leader (1985–7; 1995–6), but his skills in debate and deal-making did not carry him through national primaries against Reagan (1980) and Bush (1988), nor as Republican VP against Carter in 1976 or president against Clinton in 1996. He later became a spokesman for Viagra. His second wife, Elizabeth (m. 1975), a Harvard-trained lawyer from North Carolina, held various offices in Republican administrations, including Secretary of Transportation (1983–7) and Secretary of Labor (1989–90), before taking over the American Red Cross. She left in 1999 for a highly scripted presidential campaign that involved many women, but ultimately lost to George Bush.