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of the two questions on the day bob dole passed hubert heumphry as the most frequent guest in 1994 and i remember him lingering with absolutely kind of brilliant withering putdowns of everybody in both parties and of course, you remember his famous line at the regan funeral describing ford, carter and nixon as see no evil, hear no evil and evil. >> evil. yeah. i want to ask more about that. because it was interesting. he was well-known to be like one of the funniest members of the senate when you do polling and staffers and members. sharp whit. dark at times. but even though he lost to president clinton in 1996 was always a good sport and made fun of himself on "saturday night live" and did a late night show after 1998. when he was done with his career, he was doing pepsi commercials, dunkin' donuts commercials and a viagra commercial appearing in this commercial that you're looking at now that was actually huge for viagra becoming more main stream at the time. one thing, does it speak to this idea of how americans trusted him to some degree even though he lost by a large margin in the presidential race? >> look, people respected dole enormously even th

withered books, a coin and a cloth envelope. >> curious to see what's inside the new one. >>> and the power of social media helps a lost wedding band find its way back home. bob of their favorite florida restaurants when bob dropped his wedding ring. thankfully a woman named michelle highser found it. >> i'm walking and look down skpee a gold ring. i said to my husband, that looks like someone's wedding band. and all i thought to myself when i saw the ring was, oh, my god, what if it was my ring or his ring, you know. i would want someone to try and find a way to get it back to me. >> so highser posted a photo of the ring on social media and when someone recognized it, they alerted the manns. they got in touch with highser and described the inscription on the ring. she sent the ring just in time for christmas. >> i asked him if he had lost a ring. he said, no. he said, wait a minute, i don't have my ring on. he thought it was in the bathroom and he couldn't find it. it was just great they would follow through like that. >> i think they were more enthused than we were. >> highser said she plans to get her husband's ring inscribed just in case. sometimes social