US President Joe Biden and former US Senator Elizabeth
Dole, Bob Dole’s widow, sit near her husband’s casket at
the US Capitol.
No public viewing will take place because of the Coved-19 pandemic, although invited guests were present.
Bob Dole’s funeral will be held on Friday at the Washington National Cathedral.
On December 6, 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers placed a nine-
inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing
the construction of an impressive monument to the city’s namesake
and the nation’s first president, George Washington. As early as
1783, the infant U.S. Congress decided that a statue of George
Washington, the great Revolutionary War general, should be
placed near the site of the new Congressional building,
wherever it might be.
After then-President Washington asked him to lay out federal
capital on the Potomac River in 1791, architect Pierre L ‘Enfant
left a place for the statue at the western end of the sweeping
National Mall (near the monument’s present location). It wasn’t
until 1832, however–33 years after Washington’s death–that
anyone really did anything about the monument.
Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021)
Longtime GOP Senator and Presidential candidate Bob Dole died
early Sunday morning in his sleep.
The Dole family issued a statement later saying America was
grieving the loss of "one of its heroes.”
Condolences from both Republicans and Democrats alike commemorating his nearly four decades of service.have
been received.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957)
The U.S. Senate voted 65 to 22 to condemn Senator Joseph R.
McCarthy for conduct unbecoming of a senator. The action
which was equivalent to a censure, related to McCarthy’s
controversial investigation of suspected communists in the
U.S. government, military and civilian society.
What is known as “McCarthyism” began on February 9, 1950,
when McCarthy, a relatively obscure Republican senator from
Wisconsin, announced during a speech in Wheeling, West
Virginia, that he had in his possession a list of 205 communists
who had infiltrated the U.S. State Department.
War bonds were debt securities issued by the government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war. They were
also a means to control inflation by removing money from circulation from a stimulated wartime economy.
