RAN 11/30 By KEVIN LANDRIGAN Telegraph Staff
LONDONDERRY Bob Dole's crusade against decadence in the movies and on television may have only made the national news this year, but his wife says it is actually three decades old. "He's not talking censorship, it's really a sense of shame, trying to get these companies to take responsibility for the morality of what they deliver to the American people," Elizabeth Dole said Wednesday during an interview after addressing the Londonderry Rotary Club. "I can remember back in 1966 or 1967 he was talking publicly about the work Walt Disney was doing, bringing clean and fine entertainment." Mrs. Dole's remarks came on the first day of a two-day campaign swing through New Hampshire for her husband, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. It was her first campaign visit since she took a one-year leave of absence from her post as president of the American Red Cross. Even if her husband wins the presidency, she said she intends to return to the job heading the largest humanitarian operation in the world. Earlier this week, candidate Dole on the Senate floor suggested Americans consider a boycott of the movie "Money Train" after a brutal slaying of a subway token collector in New York appeared to be a copycat of a vivid scene in the picture. "Show me one night you can watch television without seeing a bunch ofsex and violence," she said. "What is coming out of Hollywood today is miserable." She praised Time-Warner studios for disbanding its "rap music division" after candidate Dole went to Hollywood to complain about music glorifying cop killers. Without notes, she gave her husband's stump speech - more power to the states, smaller government, greater personal freedom - as well the candidate himself. She said she may be playing the fill-in role a lot in coming weeks due to her husband's role in closed-door negotiations on a balanced federal budget. "I don't even know where I am going to be this weekend because with Bob working so hard on Capitol Hill, I've got to be prepared to go wherever he's intended to but isn't able," Mrs. Dole said. After addressing Rotary members at Whippersnappers Restaurant, she made stops in Windham and Hudson. She was scheduled to address the Merrimack Rotary Club this morning (Thur). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------