Byline: DAN BALZ Washington Post
MANCHESTER, N.H. The last time Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., trudged through New Hampshire as a presidential candidate, he was on the road to defeat and angry with his fate. It was a different Dole who campaigned here Monday: more relaxed, less acerbic and determined this time to do it right.
He starts the 1996 presidential race as the clear front-runner for the Republican nomination, and was treated that way all weekend, with big crowds and friendly faces.
``Mr. Dole, you're my hero,'' a man told him this morning at a Manchester restaurant. Dole looked at the man's cap, which read ``Korean Veteran,'' and replied, ``You're my hero.''
He is the last hurrah of the World …
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