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...talks about her remarkable career in Washington, perhaps because she rarely does. Any mention of three decades serving three Presidents and thawing Lean Cuisine for husband Senator Bob Dole at their Watergate apartment is drowned out by her frequent recital of local credentials in aresurgent drawl: her 1994 North Carolinian of the Year award, her degree from Duke and, of course, her mother, whose house she recently bought, making Dole the best kind of North Carolinian, a landowner. "My roots are deep. I've been here constantly," she says constantly, as if being graded on attendance...
...Dole got flustered when I asked, "Where's Bob?" (Maine, maybe.) She couldn't remember if she'd seen a fax of his schedule that day. He is a far more enthusiastic supporter this time around than during her presidential run, when he contributed to her primary opponent, Senator John McCain. She notes that at least she knows where the family dog is. "Bob left Leader with me," she says. "So I don't have to sleep alone." I take her word...
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...When Bob Barker called Alyssa Smith out of the audience to be a contestant on “The Price is Right,” she ran down the aisle at a breakneck pace. Her need for speed manifested itself once again on Sunday afternoon, when she arrived a good three minutes before any of her competition. Her three roommates came for moral support and to take embarrassing photos...
Smith and Redd both know disappointment. Smith reports that Bob Barker is far from the hot elderly man his TV appearances might suggest. Instead, she claims, he is “a little on the deathly pale side.” Redd encountered a similar problem with Alex Trebek. “Trebek is a dirty old man! He flirted a little with one of the girls competing and told a lot of jokes about his ex-wife,” he says...