I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. "Bob Hope"

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Bob Hope and Bing Crosby

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one. "Bob Hope"

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby bigger than Life

Bob and Richard M. Nixon in the Oval Office

President Richard M. Nixen and Bob Hope

Bob and Dwight D. Eisenhower -1943

Lyndon Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bob Hope, and Stuart Symington, 1960

Bob Hope with President Reagan and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan 1985

Bob Hope & President Bush 1992

Bob Hope & President Clinton 1995

Of the thousands of awards bestowed upon Bob Hope the Congressional Gold Medal is among those he has treasured the most. President John F. Kennedy presented Hope with the medal on September 11, 1962. The medal reads: Presented to Bob Hope by President Kennedy in recognition of his having rendered outstanding service to the cause of Democracy throughout the world.

Bob & Dolores Hope recieving the Congressional Gold Medal from President John F. Kennedy

FRONT - BOB HOPE . HUMORIST . HUMANITARIAN . PATRIOT

BACK - The medal reads: Presented to Bob Hope by President Kennedy in recognition of his having rendered outstanding service to the cause of Democracy throughout the world. By Act Of Congress June 8,1962

Nancy Reagan, right, places the 1997 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award around the neck of Bob Hope as Bob's wife Delores looks on. May 29, 1997, Beverly Hills, California

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. "Bob Hope"