Bob Dole joined the thousands of people who have visited the U.S. Capitol since Monday to pay their respects to the late President George H.W. Bush.

Then-Sen. Dole and Bush were famously rivals in Republican politics for two decades. Bush replaced Dole as Republican National Committee chairman in the early 1970s and then beat him for the 1988 GOP presidential nomination. But on Tuesday, Dole appeared emotional as he gazed at the American-flag draped casket in the Capitol Rotunda.

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