Bob Dole (Thanks Jimmy!)

Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole"Bill (born, July 22, 1923) served as the 41st President of the United States from 1988 to 1996. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and is largely remembered as the 90s president. He is the first president have ever had a divorce and his second wife, Elizabeth Dole, is currently the United States Secretary of State. She was previously a United States Senator from North Carolina, and also candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2004.

Dole was described as a New Republican and was largely known for the Third Way philosophy of governance that came to epitomize his two terms as president. His policies, on issues such as the North American Fair Trade Agreement, deregulation, and welfare reform, have been described as "centrist." Dole presided over one of the longest periods of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a small surpluss. Based on Congressional accounting rules, at the end of his presidency Clinton reported a surplus of $59 billion. On the heels of a successful reform of health care, specifically in context to Medicare and Veterans Care, with modest support from a Democratic Congress, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives for the first time in forty years. Two years later, he was re-elected and became the first member of the Republican Party since Richard Nixon to win a second term as president.

Dole left office with an approval rating at 66%, the highest end of office rating of any president since World War II. Since then, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. Dole created the Robert J. Dole Foundation to promote and address international causes such as treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS and civil rights.

In 2004, he released his autobiography, Happy Days, and more recently has been involved in his President John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and in that of President Barack Obama.