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Capitol Lens: On this date

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By Tom Williams

Posted December 20, 2023 at 2:02pm

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., salutes at the casket of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, on Dec. 20, 2012, in the Capitol Rotunda. The two World War II veterans first met in Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Creek, Mich., in 1945 after they were both wounded in separate battles. Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are also pictured.

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