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Bob Hope's Son, Lobbyist Anthony Hope, 63, Dies

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040704
Author:Joe Holley

"When I die," Tony Hope told a California newspaper in 1994, "my obituary will start, 'Tony Hope, son of Bob Hope, died yesterday.' It doesn't matter what I do with my life, that's what it will say."

Anthony J. "Tony" Hope, 63, who died on June 28 at Washington Hospital Center, was indeed the son of the late entertainer but, despite his own gifts as a raconteur and his appreciation for a good joke, his life took a very different course from that of his famous father, who died last July 27 at age 100.

The younger Mr. Hope, whose cause of death has not been reported, was a Washington attorney ...

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