By the Associated Press and KFDI News:
Bob Dole was honored at Washington National Cathedral as top leaders from both parties gathered to pay respects.
Dole’s flag-draped casket was carried in by a military honor guard as the congregation stood and Dole’s wife, former North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole, and daughter, Robin, looked on.
President Joe Biden remembered Dole a “giant of our time and of all time.” In his eulogy, Biden spoke about Dole volunteering for military service and being gravely wounded, and how he came back to “painful” years recovering from those wounds. “God, what courage Bob Dole had,” Biden said.
Dole died Sunday at the age of 98.
The Senator’s casket was to be taken to the World War II Memorial in the afternoon, then it was to be flown to Kansas for services to be held Saturday in Russell and in Topeka.
[ photo: Elizabeth Dole Foundation – Twitter ]
