In 1972 I was in a small restaurant in Lindsborg, KS with my parents and brother. A man walked in who everybody in the restaurant seemed to know - they all greeted him with "Hi Bob." He walked over to our table and introduced himself as Bob Dole and shook our hands awkwardly with his left hand. He asked where we were from (New Jersey) and why we were visiting the middle of Kansas (my brother in college). As we headed back to our hotel my mother insisted she had seen him before. Sure enough, in the next morning's newspaper it was reported that US Senator Bob Dole had paid a visit to Lindsborg, KS. At that time he had been a US Senator for less than 2 years.
RIP.