FOG BLOG U.S. POLITICS LOG: FUNERAL FOR FORMER SENATOR BOB DOLE:

Bob Dole remembered by Biden as 'man of principle, pragmatism' at funeral.....Top Democrats and Republicans turn out to honour longtime U.S. senator.....U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to speak during the funeral of former senator Bob Dole of Kansas at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Dole died Sunday at the age of 98.

Bob Dole was honoured Friday at Washington National Cathedral and the Second World War monument he helped create as top leaders from both parties saluted the longtime Kansas senator's ability to practise bare-knuckle politics without compromising his civility. Displaying a bipartisanship rare in modern government, politicians in office and out came together to pay homage to Dole's hard-scrabble rise from wounded war veteran to Senate stalwart to three-time, unsuccessful presidential candidate. "He could be partisan, and that was fine," said U.S. President Joe Biden. "Americans have been partisan since Jefferson and Hamilton squared off in George Washington's cabinet. But like them, Bob Dole was a patriot." Joining Biden at the funeral service were members of Congress, cabinet officials, three Republican former vice-presidents and Bill Clinton, who beat Dole to win re-election as president in 1996.